46.23(5)(i)
(i) May recommend the removal of the county human services director to each county board of supervisors which participated in the appointment of the county human services board, and each such county board of supervisors may remove the county human services director by a two-thirds vote of each such county, on due notice in writing.
46.23(5)(j)
(j) Shall develop county human services board operating procedures.
46.23(5)(k)
(k) Shall oversee the operation of one or more service delivery programs.
46.23(5)(m)
(m) May perform such other general functions necessary to administer the program.
46.23(5)(n)1.1. Shall submit a final budget in accordance with s.
46.031 (1) for authorized services, except for services under ch.
48 and subch.
III of ch. 49, community-based juvenile delinquency-related services, and juvenile correctional services. Notwithstanding the categorization of or limits specified for funds allocated under s.
46.495 or
51.423 (2), with the approval of the department of health services the county human services board may expend those funds consistent with any service provided under s.
46.495 or
51.42.
46.23(5)(n)2.
2. Shall submit a final budget in accordance with s.
49.325 (1) for authorized services under ch.
48 and subch.
III of ch. 49 and for authorized community-based juvenile delinquency-related services. Notwithstanding the categorization of or limits specified for funds allocated under s.
48.569, with the approval of the department of children and families the county human services board may expend those funds consistent with any service provided under s.
48.569.
46.23(5)(n)3.
3. Shall submit a final budget in accordance with s.
301.031 (1) for the purchase of authorized juvenile correctional services.
46.23(5)(o)
(o) Shall cooperate to the extent feasible with the school board, health planning agencies, law enforcement agencies, and other human service agencies, committees and planning bodies in the geographic area served by the county human services board.
46.23(5m)
(5m) Powers and duties of county human services board in certain counties with a county executive or county administrator. A county human services board appointed under sub.
(4) (b) 2. shall:
46.23(5m)(a)
(a) Appoint committees consisting of residents of the county to advise the county human services board as it deems necessary.
46.23(5m)(b)
(b) Recommend program priorities and policies, identify unmet service needs and prepare short-term and long-term plans and budgets for meeting such priorities and needs.
46.23(5m)(c)
(c) Prepare, with the assistance of the county human services director under sub.
(6m) (e), a proposed budget for submission to the county executive or county administrator; a final budget for submission to the department of health services in accordance with s.
46.031 (1) for authorized services, except services under ch.
48 and subch.
III of ch. 49, community-based juvenile delinquency-related services, and juvenile correctional services; a final budget for submission to the department of children and families in accordance with s.
49.325 for authorized services under ch.
48 and subch.
III of ch. 49 and for authorized community-based juvenile delinquency-related services; and a final budget for submission to the department of corrections in accordance with s.
301.031 for the purchase of authorized juvenile correctional services.
46.23(5m)(d)
(d) Advise the county human services director under sub.
(6m) regarding purchasing and providing services and the selection of purchase of service vendors, and make recommendations to the county executive or county administrator regarding modifications in such purchasing, providing and selection.
46.23(5m)(e)
(e) Develop county human services board operating procedures.
46.23(5m)(g)
(g) Assist in arranging cooperative working agreements with persons providing health, education, vocational or welfare services related to services provided under this section.
46.23(6)
(6) Powers and duties of county human services director in certain counties. 46.23(6)(a)
(a) A county human services director appointed under sub.
(5) (f) shall have all of the administrative and executive powers and duties of managing, operating, maintaining, and improving the services and programs of the county department of human services. Those powers and duties are subject to the rules promulgated by the department of health services for programs, except that, with respect to services or programs under ch.
48 and subch.
III of ch. 49 and community-based juvenile delinquency-related services or programs, those powers and duties are subject to the rules promulgated by the department of children and families and, with respect to the purchase of juvenile correctional services or programs, those powers and duties are subject to the rules promulgated by the department of corrections. In consultation with the county human services board under sub.
(5) and subject to its approval, the county human services director shall prepare all of the following:
46.23(6)(a)1.
1. An annual comprehensive plan and budget of all funds necessary for the program and services authorized by this section in which priorities and objectives for the year are established as well as any modifications of long-range objectives.
46.23(6)(a)3.
3. Such other reports as are required by the secretary of health services, by the secretary of corrections, or by the secretary of children and families and the county board of supervisors in a county with a single-county department of human services or the county boards of supervisors in counties with a multicounty department of human services.
46.23(6)(c)
(c) A county human services director under this subsection shall make recommendations to the county human services board under sub.
(5) for:
46.23(6)(c)2.
2. Changes in the organization and management of the program.
46.23(6)(e)
(e) A county human services director under this subsection shall comply with state requirements.
46.23(6m)
(6m) County human services director in certain counties with a county executive or county administrator. In any county with a county executive or county administrator in which the county board of supervisors has established a single-county department of human services, the county executive or county administrator shall appoint a county human services director on the basis of recognized and demonstrated interest in and knowledge of human services problems, with due regard to training, experience, executive and administrative ability and general qualification and fitness for the performance of the duties of the director. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the county board of supervisors unless the county board of supervisors, by ordinance, elects to waive confirmation or unless the appointment is made under a civil service system competitive examination procedure established under s.
59.52 (8) or ch.
63. The county human services director, subject only to the supervision of the county executive or county administrator, shall:
46.23(6m)(a)
(a) Supervise and administer any program for which supervision and administration is authorized under this section.
46.23(6m)(b)
(b) Determine administrative and program procedures and administrative policies.
46.23(6m)(c)
(c) Determine, subject to the approval of the county board of supervisors and with the advice of the county human services board under sub.
(5m), whether services are to be provided directly by the county department of human services or contracted for with other providers and make such contracts. The county board of supervisors may elect to require the approval of any such contract by the county board of supervisors.
46.23(6m)(f)
(f) Make recommendations to the county executive or county administrator regarding modifications to the proposed budget prepared by the county human services board under sub.
(5m) (c).
46.23(6m)(j)
(j) Perform other functions necessary to manage, operate, maintain and improve programs.
46.23(6m)(L)
(L) Represent human service agencies, professionals and consumers of services in negotiations with the state and federal governments.
46.23(6m)(m)
(m) Determine the number and location of outstations when appropriate to meet service demands.
46.23 History
History: 1975 c. 39,
224;
1977 c. 29;
1981 c. 20,
93,
291;
1981 c. 329 s.
31;
1983 a. 27 ss.
962,
2202 (20);
1985 a. 29 ss.
844m to
860,
3200 (56) (a);
1985 a. 120,
176,
332;
1987 a. 186;
1987 a. 403 s.
256;
1989 a. 56,
359;
1991 a. 274;
1993 a. 16,
27,
83,
445,
491;
1995 a. 27 ss.
2112 to
2127,
9126 (19),
9130 (4);
1995 a. 64,
201,
352,
417;
1997 a. 3,
164,
268,
283;
1999 a. 9;
2005 a. 264,
388,
406;
2007 a. 20 ss.
878 to
891,
9121 (6) (a);
2007 a. 45,
96;
2009 a. 28,
180;
2011 a. 32;
2015 a. 55;
2017 a. 150;
2017 a. 207 s.
5.
46.23 Annotation
There is no unconditional guarantee of continued employment under sub. (3) (d); employment is continued during a reorganization unless civil service rules provide otherwise. Dane County v. McCartney,
166 Wis. 2d 956,
480 N.W.2d 830 (Ct. App. 1992).
46.23 Annotation
Boards and directors may view client information without written and informed consent for any purpose related to their powers and duties. 69 Atty. Gen. 273.
46.23 Annotation
Officers, employees, and directors of public or private entities that furnish “human services" to a county may not be appointed to the board under sub. (4) (a); this provision does not extend to family members of “human services" providers.
80 Atty. Gen. 30.
46.23 Annotation
Because there is no explicit statutory authority for county human services departments to accept gifts, the statutory scheme contemplates that gifts, grants, and donations to a county human services department created under this section may be accepted only by the county board of supervisors.
OAG 1-08.
46.238
46.238
Infants and unborn children whose mothers abuse controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or alcohol. If an agency, as defined in s.
48.981 (1) (ag), receives a report under s.
146.0255 (2) or
146.0257 (2) and that agency is a county department under s.
46.22 or
46.23 or a licensed child welfare agency under contract with that county department, the agency shall offer to provide appropriate services and treatment to the infant and the infant's mother or to the unborn child, as defined in s.
48.02 (19), and the expectant mother of the unborn child or the agency shall make arrangements for the provision of appropriate services and treatment. If an agency receives a report under s.
146.0255 (2) or
146.0257 (2) and that agency is the department or a licensed child welfare agency under contract with the department, the agency shall refer the report to the county department under s.
51.42 or
51.437 and that county department shall offer to provide, or make arrangements for the provision of, those services and that treatment.
46.245
46.245
Information for certain pregnant women. Upon request, a county department under s.
46.215,
46.22 or
46.23 shall distribute the materials described under s.
253.10 (3) (d), as prepared and distributed by the department. A physician who intends to perform or induce an abortion or another qualified physician, as defined in s.
253.10 (2) (g), who reasonably believes that he or she might have a patient for whom the information under s.
253.10 (3) (d) is required to be given, shall request a reasonably adequate number of the materials from the county department under this section or from the department under s.
253.10 (3) (d). An individual may request a reasonably adequate number of the materials.
46.269
46.269
Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs. To the extent approved by the federal government, the department or its designee shall exclude any assets accumulated in a person's independence account, as defined in s.
49.472 (1) (c), and any income or assets from retirement benefits earned or accumulated from income or employer contributions while employed and receiving state-funded benefits under s.
46.27 or medical assistance under s.
49.472 in determining financial eligibility and cost-sharing requirements, if any, for a long-term care program under s.
46.27,
46.275, or
46.277, for the family care program that provides the benefit defined in s.
46.2805 (4), for the Family Care Partnership program, or for the self-directed services option, as defined in s.
46.2897 (1).
46.269 History
History: 2017 a. 59.
46.27
46.27
Long-term support community options program. 46.27(1)(1)
Definitions. In this section:
46.27(1)(a)
(a) “Aging unit" means an aging unit director and necessary personnel, directed by a county commission on aging and organized as one of the following:
46.27(1)(a)1.
1. An agency of county government with the primary purpose of administering programs of services for older individuals of the county.
46.27(1)(a)2.
2. A unit, within a county department under s.
46.215,
46.22 or
46.23, with the primary purpose of administering programs of services for older individuals of the county.
46.27(1)(ai)
(ai) “Community-based residential facility" means a facility that meets the definition in s.
50.01 (1g) and that is licensed under s.
50.03 (1).
46.27(1)(b)
(b) “Nursing home" means a facility that meets the definition in s.
50.01 (3) and that is licensed under s.
50.03 (1) and includes a state center for the developmentally disabled and a Wisconsin veterans home operated by the department of veterans affairs under s.
45.50.
46.27(1)(c)
(c) “Program" means the long-term support community options program.
46.27(1)(d)
(d) “Residence" means the voluntary concurrence of physical presence with intent to remain in a place of fixed habitation. Physical presence shall be prima facie evidence of intent to remain.
46.27(1)(dr)
(dr) “State-operated long-term care facility" means a state center for the developmentally disabled and a Wisconsin veterans home operated by the department of veterans affairs under s.
45.50.
46.27(1)(e)
(e) “Voluntary" means according to an individual's free choice, if competent, or by choice of his or her guardian, if the individual is adjudicated incompetent.
46.27(2)
(2) Departmental duties. The department shall:
46.27(2)(c)
(c) Review and approve or disapprove the selection of a county department or aging unit under sub.
(3) (b) to administer the program.
46.27(2)(d)
(d) In consultation with representatives of counties, hospitals and nursing homes and with recipients of long-term community support services, develop guidelines for implementing the program and criteria for reviewing community options plans from counties participating in the program. The guidelines and criteria shall address cost-effectiveness, scope, feasibility and impact on the quality and appropriateness of health services and social services and shall provide counties with maximum flexibility to develop programs that address local needs.
46.27(2)(e)
(e) Review and approve or disapprove the community options plan of each county participating in the program.
46.27(2)(f)
(f) Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the program, the ability of the program to provide alternatives to institutional care of persons and the reasons why any county department or aging unit administering the program finds that a community arrangement is not feasible under sub.
(6) (d).
46.27(2)(g)1.
1. Require that a county, by use of a form provided by the department or other appropriate procedure, ensure that persons receiving services under this section meet the eligibility requirements for the program.
46.27(2)(g)2.
2. Periodically monitor the implementation of the program.
46.27(2)(h)
(h) Promulgate all of the following as rules:
46.27(2)(h)1.
1. Adoption of a long-term community support service fee schedule as part of the uniform fee schedule under s.
46.03 (18) that is substantially similar to the fee calculation schedule existing on January 1, 1985, that was developed as a part of the guidelines required under par.
(d).
46.27(2)(h)2.
2. Conditions of hardship under which the department may grant an exception to the requirement of sub.
(6r) (c).
46.27(2)(i)
(i) Review and approve or disapprove waiver requests under sub.
(3) (f), review and approve or disapprove requests for exceptions under sub.
(6r) (c) and provide technical assistance to a county that reaches or exceeds the annual allocation limit specified in sub.
(3) (f) in order to explore alternative methods of providing long-term community support services for persons who are in group living arrangements in that county.
46.27(2)(j)
(j) By January 1, 1997, develop a model contract for use by counties for purchase of long-term community support services for persons who reside in community-based residential facilities. The governor and the joint committee on finance shall approve the model contract before it is implemented.
46.27(2)(k)
(k) Review and approve or disapprove the terms of risk reserve escrow accounts created under sub.
(7) (fr) and approve or disapprove disbursements for administrative or staff costs from the risk reserve escrow accounts.
46.27(2m)
(2m) Reimbursement disallowances. The department may disallow reimbursement under this section for services provided to persons who do not meet the eligibility requirements.
46.27(3)
(3) Duties of participating counties. The county board of supervisors of any county participating in the program shall:
