LRB-0722/P1
MIM:amn
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rice, BB0030 - Veteran rental assistance program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
housing
Rental assistance grants for homeless veterans
This bill requires DOA to award grants to each continuum of care organization in Wisconsin for the purpose of providing tenant-based rental assistance to homeless veterans. A continuum of care organization is an organization designated by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides funding and services to alleviate homelessness.
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 1
. 16.3078 of the statutes is created to read:
16.3078 Rental assistance grants for homeless veterans. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (7) (bq), the department shall award grants to each continuum of care organization in this state designated by the federal department of housing and urban development. All grant funds shall be used to provide tenant-based rental assistance to homeless veterans in this state.
Section 2
. 20.505 (7) (bq) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (7) (bq) Rental assistance for homeless veterans. The amounts in the schedule for the rental assistance grants awarded under s. 16.3078.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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