LRB-0927/P3
EAW:klm
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bork, BB0325 - Home Visiting programs
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Children
Child abuse and neglect prevention program; home visitation
Under current law, DCF provides funding to counties, cities, private agencies, and Indian tribes to provide home visitation program services to individuals who are determined, through a risk assessment, to be at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting his or her child. This bill requires DCF to allocate an additional $500,000 per year to the Nurse Family Partnership home visitation program in Milwaukee county, beginning in fiscal year 2021-22.
For further information see the state 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 9106.
Nonstatutory provisions; Children and Families.
(1) Child abuse and neglect prevention program; home visitation. The department of children and families shall allocate to the nurse family partnership home visitation program under s. 48.983 (4) (b) in a county with a population of 750,000 or more an additional $500,000 annually, beginning in fiscal year 2021-22.
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