LRB-2064/P8
EHS:kjf
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bork, BB0386 - Community youth and family aids; funding for 17-year-old juveniles and SRCCCYs
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
correctional system
Juvenile correction system
1. Community youth and family aids
Under current law relating to community youth and family aids, generally referred to as “youth aids," DCF is required to allocate to counties various state and federal moneys to pay for state-provided juvenile correctional services and local delinquency-related and juvenile justice services. This bill sets the amounts of youth aids that DCF must allocate to counties in the 2019-21 fiscal biennium.
The bill appropriates to DCF a sum sufficient for youth aids-related purposes but only to reimburse counties, beginning on January 1, 2021, for costs associated with juveniles who were alleged to have violated a state or federal criminal law or any civil law or municipal ordinance at age 17. The bill also provides funding and requires DCF to reimburse counties for one-time start-up costs incurred for youth aids-related purposes in establishing, alone or jointly with one or more counties, a secured residential care center for children and youth. The bill requires DCF to consult with county representatives to determine those expenses that are eligible for reimbursement and to evaluate modifications to the youth aids formula.
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
. 20.437 (1) (cL) of the statutes is created to read:
20.437 (1) (cL) Seventeen-year-old juvenile justice aids. A sum sufficient for the purposes under s. 48.5275.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2
. 20.437 (1) (cn) of the statutes is created to read:
20.437 (1) (cn) County facility start-up costs. The amounts in the schedule for the purposes under s. 48.5276.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 3
. 48.526 (7) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) Allocations of funds. (intro.) Within the limits of the availability of the appropriations under s. 20.437 (1) (cj) and (o), the department shall allocate funds for community youth and family aids for the period beginning on July 1, 2015 2019, and ending on June 30, 2017 2021, as provided in this subsection to county departments under ss. 46.215, 46.22, and 46.23 as follows:
Section 4
. 48.526 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (a) For community youth and family aids under this section, amounts not to exceed $45,572,100 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $91,150,200 for 2016 2020, and $45,578,100 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021.
Section 5
. 48.526 (7) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (b) (intro.) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $2,000,000 for the last 6 months of 2015
2019, $4,000,000 for 2016 2020, and $2,000,000 for the first 6 months of 2017
2021 to counties based on each of the following factors weighted equally:
Section 6
. 48.526 (7) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (bm) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $6,250,000 for the last 6 months of 2015
2019, $12,500,000 for 2016 2020, and $6,250,000 for the first 6 months of 2017
2021 to counties based on each county's proportion of the number of juveniles statewide who are placed in a juvenile correctional facility or a secured residential care center for children and youth during the most recent 3-year period for which that information is available.
Section 7
. 48.526 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (c) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $1,053,200 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $2,106,500 for 2016 2020, and $1,053,300 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021 to counties based on each of the factors specified in par. (b) 1. to 3. weighted equally, except that no county may receive an allocation under this paragraph that is less than 93 percent nor more than 115 percent of the amount that the county would have received under this paragraph if the allocation had been distributed only on the basis of the factor specified in par. (b) 3.
Section 8
. 48.526 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (e) For emergencies related to community youth and family aids under this section, amounts not to exceed $125,000 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $250,000 for 2016 2020, and $125,000 for the first 6 months of 2017
2021. A county is eligible for payments under this paragraph only if it has a population of not more than 45,000.
Section 9
. 48.526 (7) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (h) For counties that are purchasing community supervision services under s. 938.533 (2), $1,062,400 in the last 6 months of
2017 2019, $2,124,800 in 2018 2020, and $1,062,400 in the first 6 months of 2019 2021 for the provision of community supervision services for juveniles from that county. In distributing funds to counties under this paragraph, the department shall distribute to each county the full amount of the charges for the services purchased by that county, except that if the amounts available under this paragraph are insufficient to distribute that full amount, the department shall distribute those available amounts to each county that purchases community supervision services based on the ratio that the charges to that county for those services bear to the total charges to all counties that purchase those services.
Section 10
. 48.526 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (8) Alcohol and other drug abuse treatment. From the amount of the allocations specified in sub. (7) (a), the department shall allocate $666,700 in the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $1,333,400 in 2016 2020, and $666,700 in the first 6 months of 2017 2021 for alcohol and other drug abuse treatment programs.
Section 11
. 48.5275 of the statutes is created to read:
48.5275 Seventeen-year-old juvenile justice aids. Notwithstanding s. 48.526, from the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (cL), beginning on January 1, 2021, the department shall reimburse counties for the costs under s. 48.526 (2) (c) associated with juveniles who were alleged to have violated a state or federal criminal law or any civil law or municipal ordinance at age 17.
Section 12
. 48.5276 of the statutes is created to read:
48.5276 County facility start-up costs. From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (cn), the department shall reimburse counties for the one-time start-up costs under s. 48.526 (2) (c) incurred by a county, either on its own or jointly with one or more counties, in establishing a secured residential care center for children and youth under s. 59.53 (8m).
Section 9106.
Nonstatutory provisions; Children and Families.
(1) Seventeen-year-old juvenile justice aids, county facilities, and the community youth and family aids formula. The department of children and families shall consult with county representatives to determine eligible expenses to be reimbursed under ss. 48.5275 and 48.5276 and on modifications to the community youth and family aids formula under s. 48.526.
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