46.85 Programs for older individuals.
46.856 Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.
46.86 Treatment programs.
46.87 Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.
46.90 Elder abuse reporting system.
46.93 Adolescent pregnancy prevention programs and pregnancy services.
46.935 Comprehensive community-based adolescent demonstration projects.
46.95 Domestic abuse grants.
46.96 Independent living center grants.
46.972 Services for homeless individuals.
46.973 Drug dependence program.
46.974 Joint alcohol and drug abuse prevention plan.
46.975 Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.
46.976 Group home revolving loan fund.
46.977 Guardianship grants.
46.985 Family support program.
46.995 Adolescent self-sufficiency and pregnancy prevention.
46.996 Adolescent services.
46.997 Adolescent choices project grants.
46.001
46.001
Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to provide a just and humane program of services to children in need of protection or services and nonmarital children; to prevent dependency, mental illness, developmental disability, mental infirmity and other forms of social maladjustment by a continuous attack on causes; to provide effective aid and services to all persons in need thereof and to assist those persons to achieve or regain self-dependence at the earliest possible date; to avoid duplication and waste of effort and money on the part of public and private agencies; and to coordinate and integrate a social welfare program.
46.011(1)
(1) "Department" means the department of health and family services.
46.011(2)
(2) "Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to
s. 51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b) or
55.06 (11) (a) or
ch. 980. "Prisoner" does not include any person who is serving a sentence of detention under
s. 973.03 (4) unless the person is in the county jail under
s. 973.03 (4) (c).
46.011(3)
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and family services.
46.011(4)
(4) "State health planning and development agency" means the department, as designated under
s. 250.04 (12).
46.014
46.014
Secretary, powers and duties. 46.014(1)
(1)
Inventories. On or before July 1 in each year, the secretary shall cause full and complete inventories and appraisals to be made of all the property of each institution administered by the department, which shall be recorded and so classified as to show separately the amount, kind and value of such property.
46.014(2)
(2) Visitation. The secretary shall cause each of said institutions to be visited and inspected at least once a month to ascertain whether the officers and employes therein are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties, all inmates properly cared for and governed, all accounts, books and vouchers properly kept, and all the business affairs properly conducted.
46.014(3)
(3) Powers and duties. The secretary shall plan for and establish within the department a program of research designed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment, curative and rehabilitative programs of the various institutions and divisions of the department. The secretary may inquire into any matter affecting social welfare and hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and make recommendations to the appropriate agencies, public or private, thereon.
46.014(4)
(4) Reports. At least annually, the secretary shall submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under
s. 13.172 (3), concerning activities of community action agencies under
s. 46.30 and their effectiveness in promoting social and economic opportunities for poor persons.
46.016
46.016
Cooperation with federal government. The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning public assistance, social security, child welfare and youth services, mental hygiene, services for the blind and in other matters of mutual concern pertaining to public welfare.
46.016 History
History: 1989 a. 31,
107;
1995 a. 27.
46.017
46.017
Legal actions. The department may sue and be sued.
46.018
46.018
Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures. Withdrawal or disbursement of moneys deposited in a public depository, as defined in
s. 34.01 (5), to the credit of the department or any of its divisions or agencies shall be by check, share draft or other draft signed by the secretary or by one or more persons in the department designated by written authorization of the secretary. Such checks, share drafts and other drafts shall be signed personally or by use of a mechanical device adopted by the secretary or his or her designees for affixing a facsimile signature. Any public depository shall be fully warranted and protected in making payment on any check, share draft or other draft bearing such facsimile signature notwithstanding that the facsimile may have been placed thereon without the authority of the secretary or his or her designees.
46.018 History
History: 1983 a. 189 s.
329 (21);
1983 a. 368,
538.
46.02
46.02
Agency powers and duties. Any institution which is subject to
chs. 46,
48 to
51,
55 and
58 and to regulation under
ch. 150 shall, in cases of conflict between
chs. 46,
48 to
51,
55 and
58 and
ch. 150, be governed by
ch. 150. The department shall promulgate rules and establish procedures for resolving any such controversy.
46.023
46.023
Milwaukee child welfare partnership council and advisory committees. 46.023(1)
(1)
Milwaukee child welfare partnership council; duties. The Milwaukee child welfare partnership council shall do all of the following:
46.023(1)(a)
(a) Formulate suggested policies and plans for the improvement of the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those policies and plans to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(b)
(b) Formulate suggested measures for evaluating the effectiveness of the child welfare system in Milwaukee County, including outcome measures, and make recommendations with respect to those measures to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(c)
(c) Formulate suggested funding priorities for the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those funding priorities to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(d)
(d) Identify innovative public and private funding opportunities for the child welfare system in Milwaukee County and make recommendations with respect to those funding opportunities to the department and the legislature.
46.023(1)(e)
(e) Advise the department in planning, and providing technical assistance and capacity building to support, a neighborhood-based system for the delivery of child welfare services in Milwaukee County.
46.023(2)
(2) Milwaukee child welfare community advisory committees. The department shall establish community advisory committees for each of the 5 neighborhood-based child welfare service delivery sites planned for Milwaukee County under
1995 Wisconsin Act 303, section 9127 (1) (b). Each committee shall provide a forum for communication for those persons who are interested in the delivery of child welfare services in the neighborhood to be served by the service delivery site. Any committee established under this subsection shall continue in existence after the establishment of the service delivery site to make recommendations to the department with respect to the delivery of child welfare services in the neighborhood served by the delivery site.
46.023 History
History: 1995 a. 303.
46.03
46.03
Department, powers and duties. The department shall:
46.03(1)
(1) Institutions governed. Maintain and govern the Mendota and the Winnebago mental health institutes; and the centers for the developmentally disabled.
46.03(2)
(2) Supervision over property. Supervise, manage, preserve and care for the buildings, grounds and other property pertaining to said institutions, and promote the objects for which they are established.
46.03(2a)
(2a) Gifts. The department may accept gifts, grants or donations of money or of property from private sources to be administered by the department for the execution of its functions. All moneys so received shall be paid into the general fund and are appropriated therefrom as provided in
s. 20.435 (9) (i).
46.03(3)
(3) Trustee duty. Take and hold in trust,whenever it considers acceptance advantageous, all property transferred to the state to be applied to any specified purpose, use or benefit pertaining to any of the institutions under its control or the inmates thereof, and apply the same in accordance with the trust; and when ordered by the court, act as trustee of funds paid for the support of any child if appointed by the court or family court commissioner under
s. 767.475 (7).
46.03(4)(a)(a) Develop and maintain such programs of education and prevention as it deems proper.
46.03(4)(b)1.1. The department, in order to discharge more effectively its responsibilities under this chapter and
ch. 48 and other relevant provisions of the statutes, is authorized to study causes and methods of prevention and treatment of mental illness, mental deficiency, mental infirmity, and related social problems, including establishment of demonstration projects to apply and evaluate such methods in actual cases. The department is directed and authorized to utilize all powers provided by the statutes, including the authority under
sub. (2a), to accept grants of money or property from federal, state or private sources, and to enlist the cooperation of other appropriate agencies and state departments; it may enter into agreements with local government subdivisions, departments and agencies for the joint conduct of such projects; and it may purchase services when deemed appropriate.
46.03(5)(a)(a) Execute the laws relating to the custody, care and treatment of mentally ill, mentally infirm and mentally deficient persons, inebriates and drug addicts. It shall examine all institutions, public and private, authorized to receive and care for such persons, and inquire into the method of government and the management of persons therein, and examine into the condition of buildings, grounds and other property connected with any such institution and into matters relating to its management.
46.03(5)(b)
(b) Direct the psychiatric field work, aftercare and community supervision and exercise such powers in relation to prevention as the department deems appropriate.
46.03(7)(a)(a) Promote the enforcement of laws for the protection of developmentally disabled children, children in need of protection or services and nonmarital children; and to this end cooperate with courts assigned to exercise jurisdiction under
chs. 48 and
938 and licensed child welfare agencies and institutions (public and private) and take the initiative in all matters involving the interests of such children where adequate provision therefor has not already been made, including the establishment and enforcement of standards for services provided under
s. 48.345.
46.03(7)(bm)
(bm) Maintain a file containing records of artificial inseminations under
s. 891.40 and records of declarations of paternal interest under
s. 48.025 and of statements acknowledging paternity under
s. 69.15 (3) (b). The department shall release these records only upon an order of the court except that the department may use nonidentifying information concerning artificial inseminations for the purpose of compiling statistics and except that records relating to declarations of paternal interest and statements acknowledging paternity shall be released to the department of industry, labor and job development or its designee under
s. 59.07 (97) [59.53 (5)] without a court order upon the request of the department of industry, labor and job development or its designee under
s. 59.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under
s. 49.22 or by any other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record.
46.03 Note
NOTE: Par. (bm) is shown as affected by two acts of the 1995 legislature and as merged by the revisor under s. 13.93 (2) (c). The bracketed language indicates the correct cross-reference.
46.03(7)(c)
(c) Administer the laws relating to child care centers, day nurseries and nursery schools.
46.03(7)(cm)
(cm) Promote the establishment of adequate child care facilities and services in this state by providing start-up grants to newly operating day care facilities and services under rules promulgated by the department.
46.03(7)(d)
(d) With the assistance of the judicial conference, develop simplified forms for filing petitions for child abuse restraining orders and injunctions under
s. 813.122. The department shall provide these forms to clerks of circuit court without cost.
46.03(7m)
(7m) Foster care. In each federal fiscal year, ensure that there are no more than 2,200 children in foster care and treatment foster care placements for more than 24 months, consistent with the best interests of each child. Services provided in connection with this requirement shall comply with the requirements under
P.L. 96-272.
46.03(10)
(10) Training staff. In its discretion, conduct a training program of in-service training and staff development; and, in cooperation with educational institutions, provide facilities for work experience for students, including subsistence.
46.03(13)
(13) Charges. In compliance with the compensation plan established under
s. 230.12 (3), have authority to make and determine charges for meals, living quarters, laundry and other services furnished to employes of the several institutions and members of the employe's family maintained as such. All moneys received from each person on account of these services shall be used for operation of the institutions under
s. 20.435 (2) (a) and
(gk). If a chaplain employed in any state institution administered by the department is not furnished a residence by the state, $1,800 or 20% of the chaplain's salary, whichever is greater, is designated as his or her housing allowance.
46.03(14)
(14) Vending stands. Establish and maintain a revolving fund not exceeding $60,000 in any of the state institutions administered by the department, for the education, recreation and convenience of the patients, inmates and employes, to be used for the operation of vending stands, canteen operations, reading clubs, musical organizations, religious programs, athletics and similar projects. The funds are exempt from
s. 20.906, but are subject to audit by the department and the legislative audit bureau in its discretion.
46.03(15)
(15) Commissary. Pursuant to its rules the department may, with the approval of the governor and the director of personnel, provide employes in its institutions with laundry, food, housing and necessary furnishings.
46.03(17)
(17) Purchase of care and services. Be empowered to contract with public or voluntary agencies or others:
46.03(17)(a)
(a) To purchase in full or in part care and services which it is authorized by any statute to provide as an alternative to providing such care and services itself.
46.03(17)(b)
(b) To purchase or provide in full or in part the care and services which county agencies may provide or purchase under any statute and to sell to county agencies such portions thereof as the county agency may desire to purchase.
46.03(17)(d)
(d) To sell services, under contract, which the department is authorized to provide by statute, to any federally recognized tribal governing body.
46.03(18)
(18) Uniform fee schedule, liability and collections. 46.03(18)(a)(a) Except as provided in
s. 46.10 (14) (b) and
(c), the department of health and family services shall establish a uniform system of fees for services provided or purchased by the department of health and family services, or a county department under
s. 46.215,
46.22,
51.42 or
51.437, except for services provided under
subch. III of ch. 49; services relating to adoption; services provided to courts; outreach, information and referral services; or where, as determined by the department of health and family services, a fee is administratively unfeasible or would significantly prevent accomplishing the purpose of the service. A county department under
s. 46.215,
46.22,
51.42 or
51.437 shall apply the fees which it collects under this program to cover the cost of such services. The department of health and family services shall report to the joint committee on finance no later than March 1 of each year on the number of children placed for adoption by the department of health and family services during the previous year and the costs to the state for services relating to such adoptions.
46.03(18)(am)
(am) Paragraph (a) does not prevent the department from charging and collecting the cost of adoptive placement investigations and child care as authorized under
s. 48.837 (7).
46.03(18)(b)
(b) Except as provided in
s. 46.10 (14) (b) and
(c), any person receiving services provided or purchased under
par. (a) or the spouse of the person and, in the case of a minor, the parents of the person, and, in the case of a foreign child described in
s. 48.839 (1) who became dependent on public funds for his or her primary support before an order granting his or her adoption, the resident of this state appointed guardian of the child by a foreign court who brought the child into this state for the purpose of adoption, shall be liable for the services in the amount of the fee established under
par. (a). If a minor receives services without consent of a parent or guardian under
s. 51.47, the department shall base the fee solely on the minor's ability to pay.
46.03(18)(c)
(c) The department shall make collections from the person who in the opinion of the department is best able to pay, giving due regard to the present needs of the person or of his or her lawful dependents. The department may bring action in the name of the department to enforce the liability established under
par. (b). The department may not collect from the parent of a minor receiving treatment for alcohol or drug abuse, except as provided in
s. 51.47. This paragraph does not apply to the recovery of fees for the care and services specified under
s. 46.10.
46.03(18)(d)
(d) The department may compromise or waive all or part of the liability for services received. The sworn statement of the collection and deportation counsel appointed under
s. 46.10 (7) or the department secretary, shall be evidence of the services provided and the fees charged for such services.
46.03(18)(e)
(e) The department may delegate to county departments under
s. 46.215,
46.22,
51.42 or
51.437 and other providers of care and services the powers and duties vested in the department by
pars. (c) and
(d) as it deems necessary to efficiently administer this subsection, subject to such conditions as the department deems appropriate.
46.03(18)(f)
(f) Notwithstanding
par. (a), any person who submits to an assessment or driver safety plan under
s. 23.33 (13) (e),
30.80 (6) (d),
343.16 (5) (a),
343.30 (1q),
343.305 (10) or
350.11 (3) (d) shall pay a reasonable fee therefor to the appropriate county department under
s. 51.42 or traffic safety school under
s. 345.60. A county may allow the person to pay the assessment fee in 1, 2, 3 or 4 equal instalments. The fee for the driver safety plan may be reduced or waived if the person is unable to pay the complete fee, but no fee for assessment or attendance at a traffic safety school under
s. 345.60 may be reduced or waived. Nonpayment of the assessment fee is noncompliance with the court order that required completion of an assessment and driver safety plan. Upon a finding that the person has the ability to pay, nonpayment of the driver safety plan fee is noncompliance with the court order that required completion of an assessment and driver safety plan.
46.03(18)(fm)
(fm) Notwithstanding
par. (a), any person who submits to an assessment under
s. 961.472 shall pay a fee to the appropriate county department under
s. 51.42. The department of health and family services shall set fees for each county department under
s. 51.42 designed to offset all the costs to the county in providing the assessment program. The department of health and family services shall provide for the reduction or waiver of the fee for persons who are unable to pay the complete fee.
46.03(18)(g)
(g) The department shall return to county departments under
s. 46.215,
46.22,
51.42 or
51.437 50% of collections made by the department on and after January 1, 1978, for delinquent accounts previously delegated under
par. (e) and then referred back to the department for collections.
