AB1154: Bill Text

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

2023 Assembly BILL 1154

March 6, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Stubbs, Emerson, Andraca, Baldeh, Conley, Jacobson, Joers, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Ratcliff, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Subeck and Palmeri, cosponsored by Senators Smith, L. Johnson, Carpenter, Larson, Roys, Spreitzer and Agard. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.

AB1154,1,2 An Act relating to: grants for crisis intervention teams and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides $1,000,000 for the Department of Health Services to award grants to counties, cities, towns, villages, and American Indian tribes or bands in this state in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium for the staffing of law enforcement agencies with mental health crisis intervention teams. Under current law, DHS must award grants totaling $1,000,000 in each fiscal biennium for mental health crisis intervention team training for law enforcement agencies and correctional officers.

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:

AB1154,1 Section 1 . Nonstatutory provisions.

AB1154,2,2 (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (cd), in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, the department of health services shall award grants, as determined by the department of health services, in the total amount of $1,000,000 to counties, cities, towns, villages, and American Indian tribes or bands in this state for the staffing of law enforcement agencies with mental health crisis intervention teams.

AB1154,2 Section 2 . Fiscal changes.

AB1154,2,6 (1) In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of health services under s. 20.435 (5) (cd), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is increased by $1,000,000 to award the grants under Section 1 (1) of this act.

AB1154,3 Section 3. Effective date.

AB1154,2,9 (1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.

AB1154,2,10 (End)