21-0176_P8

LRB-0176/P8

EAW:amn&kjf

2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE

DOA:......Rice, BB0007 - TANF allocations

For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction

An Act ...; relating to: the budget.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

health and human services

Public Assistance

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Under current law, DCF allocates specific amounts of federal moneys, including child care development funds and moneys received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program for various public assistance programs. Under this bill, TANF funding allocations are changed in the following ways, as compared to the funding allocation in the 2019-21 fiscal biennium:

1. For Wisconsin Works benefits, agency contracts, and job access loans, the total funding is increased by 20 percent.

2. For emergency assistance payments, funding is increased by 73 percent.

3. For grants to Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., for distribution to programs that provide civil legal services to low-income families, funding is doubled.

4. For the Transform Milwaukee and Transitional Jobs programs, funding is increased by 49 percent.

5. For direct child care services, child care administration, and child care improvement programs, total funding is decreased by 7 percent.

6. For kinship care payments, safety and out-of-home placement services, and child abuse and neglect prevention services, total funding is increased by 10 percent.

7. For grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, funding is increased by 5 percent.

8. For the earned income tax credit supplement, funding is increased by 34 percent.

9. For the support of the dependent children of recipients of supplemental security income, funding is decreased by 27 percent.

10. For all other programs under TANF, funding is continued with a funding change of less than 5 percent.

The bill additionally allocates $500,000 of TANF funding in each fiscal year to fund the Jobs for America's Graduates programs to improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive TANF.

Also, this bill specifies that, with respect to a TANF-funded contract for services, “allocation” means the amount under the contract that DCF is obligated to pay.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 49.175 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) Allocation of funds. (intro.) In this section, with respect to any of the following that fund a contract for services, “allocation” means the amount under the contract that the department is obligated to pay. Except as provided in sub. (2), within the limits of the appropriations under s. 20.437 (2) (a), (cm), (dz), (k), (kx), (L), (mc), (md), (me), and (s) and (3) (kp), the department shall allocate the following amounts for the following purposes:

Section 2 . 49.175 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (a) Wisconsin Works benefits. For Wisconsin Works benefits, $31,110,000 $38,335,100 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $31,732,200 $45,703,200 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 3 . 49.175 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (b) Wisconsin Works agency contracts; job access loans. For contracts with Wisconsin Works agencies under s. 49.143 and for job access loans under s. 49.147 (6), $50,000,000 $54,009,700 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $50,000,000 $57,071,200 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 4 . 49.175 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (c) Case management incentive payments. For supplement payments to individuals under s. 49.255, $2,700,000 in each fiscal year 2019-20 and $2,700,000 in fiscal year 2020-21.

Section 5 . 49.175 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (f) Homeless case management services grants. For grants to shelter facilities under s. 16.3085, $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year. All moneys allocated under this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (7) (kg).

****Note: This is reconciled s. 48.175 (1) (f). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0176/P6 and -0582/P1.

Section 6. 49.175 (1) (fa) of the statutes is repealed.

Section 7 . 49.175 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (g) State administration of public assistance programs and overpayment collections. For state administration of public assistance programs and the collection of public assistance overpayments, $16,671,200 $17,363,300 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $17,268,300 $17,625,100 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 8 . 49.175 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (i) Emergency assistance. For emergency assistance under s. 49.138 and for transfer to the department of administration for low-income energy or weatherization assistance programs, $6,000,000 in each fiscal year $10,829,500 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $9,936,400 in fiscal year 2022-23.

Section 9 . 49.175 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (j) Grants for providing civil legal services. For the grants under s. 49.1635 (5) to Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., for distribution to programs that provide civil legal services to low-income families, $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year.

****Note: This is reconciled s. 49.175 (1) (j). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0176/P6 and -0672/P2.

Section 10 . 49.175 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (k) Transform Milwaukee and Transitional Jobs programs. For contract costs under the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program under s. 49.163, $8,500,000 $12,100,000 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $9,500,000 $14,700,000 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 11. 49.175 (1) (Lm) of the statutes is created to read:

49.175 (1) (Lm) Jobs for America's Graduates. For grants to the Jobs for America's Graduates to fund programs that improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., $500,000 in each fiscal year.

Section 12 . 49.175 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (p) Direct child care services. For direct child care services under s. 49.155 or 49.257, $357,097,500 in fiscal year 2019-20 and $365,700,400 $311,236,600 in each fiscal year 2020-21.

Section 13 . 49.175 (1) (q) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (q) Child care state administration and licensing activities. For state administration of child care programs under s. 49.155 and for child care licensing activities, $40,152,100 $42,678,900 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $41,555,200 $41,922,600 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 14. 49.175 (1) (qm) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (qm) Quality care for quality kids. For the child care quality improvement activities specified in ss. 49.133, 49.155 (1g), and 49.257, $16,532,900 $33,847,900 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $16,683,700 $34,484,700 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

****Note: This is reconciled s. 49.175 (1) (qm). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0176/P6 and -1299/P3.

Section 15 . 49.175 (1) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (r) Children of recipients of supplemental security income. For payments made under s. 49.775 for the support of the dependent children of recipients of supplemental security income, $25,013,300 in each fiscal year $18,564,700 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $18,145,000 in fiscal year 2022-23.

Section 16 . 49.175 (1) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (s) Kinship care and long-term kinship care assistance. For kinship care and long-term kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3m) (am) and (3n) (am), for assessments to determine eligibility for those payments, and for agreements under s. 48.57 (3t) with the governing bodies of Indian tribes for the administration of the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs within the boundaries of the reservations of those tribes, $26,640,000 $28,727,100 in fiscal year 2019-20 2021-22 and $28,159,200 $31,441,800 in fiscal year 2020-21 2022-23.

Section 17 . 49.175 (1) (t) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (t) Safety and out-of-home placement services. For services provided to ensure the safety of children who the department or a county determines may remain at home if appropriate services are provided, and for services provided to families with children placed in out-of-home care, $8,314,300 in fiscal year 2019-20 and $9,314,300 in each fiscal year 2020-21. To receive funding under this paragraph, a county shall match a percentage of the amount received that is equal to the percentage the county is required to match for a distribution under s. 48.563 (2) as specified by the schedule established by the department under s. 48.569 (1) (d).

Section 18 . 49.175 (1) (u) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (u) Prevention services. For services to prevent child abuse or neglect, $5,789,600 in fiscal year 2019-20 and $6,789,600 $7,289,600 in each fiscal year 2020-21.

Section 19 . 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (z) Grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. For grants to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to fund programs that improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., focusing on study habits, intensive tutoring in math and English, and exposure to career options and role models, $2,675,000 $2,807,000 in each fiscal year. Grants provided under this paragraph may not be used by the grant recipient to replace funding for programs that are being funded, when the grant proceeds are received, with moneys other than those from the appropriations specified in sub. (1) (intro.). The total amount of the grants includes funds for the BE GREAT: Graduate program in the amount of matching funds that the program provides, up to $1,400,000 $1,532,000 in each fiscal year, to be used only for activities for which federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant moneys may be used.

Section 20 . 49.175 (1) (zh) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.175 (1) (zh) Earned income tax credit supplement. For the transfer of moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.437 (2) (md) to the appropriation account under s. 20.835 (2) (kf) for the earned income tax credit, $116,716,400 in fiscal year 2021-22 and $69,700,000 in each fiscal year 2022-23.

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