LRB-1789/P3
FFK:jld&ahe
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0325 - Mental health collaborative grants
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill requires DPI to develop, implement, and administer a program to award grants to school districts and independent charter schools for the purpose of collaborating with community mental health providers to provide mental health services to pupils.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.255 (2) (db) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (db) Community and school mental health collaboration grants. The amounts in the schedule for the grant program under s. 115.353 for providing mental health services to pupils in collaboration with community mental health providers.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.353 of the statutes is created to read:
115.353 Community and school mental health collaboration grants. (1) The department shall develop, implement, and, beginning in the 2018-19 school year, administer a grant program under which the department awards grants to school districts and charter schools under s. 118.40 (2r) and (2x) for the purpose of collaborating with community mental health providers to provide mental health services to pupils.
(2) The department shall award grants under sub. (1) from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (db).
(3) The department shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.
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