SB1089: Bill Text

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

2023 Senate BILL 1089

March 18, 2024 - Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, Agard and Spreitzer, cosponsored by Representatives Bare, Conley, Emerson, Joers, Ratcliff, Sinicki, Subeck and Palmeri. Referred to Committee on Health.

SB1089,1,3 An Act to create 20.435 (1) (fo) and 146.621 of the statutes; relating to: grants to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care provider workforce and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to each county to match any investments made by the county in the previous fiscal year in the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care and prevention, or wellness of the county's health care, public health, child care, long-term care, and other care provider workforce. Under the bill, grants may not exceed an amount equal to $1.11 multiplied by the county's population.

For further information see the state and local 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:

SB1089,1 Section 1. 20.435 (1) (fo) of the statutes is created to read:

SB1089,1,6 20.435 (1) (fo) Workforce investment grants. A sum sufficient for grants to counties for workforce investment under s. 146.621.

SB1089,2 Section 2. 146.621 of the statutes is created to read:

SB1089,2,9 146.621 Workforce investment grants. Each fiscal year, the department shall provide grants to each county to match any investments made by the county in the previous fiscal year in the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care and prevention, or wellness of the county's health care, public health, child care, long-term care, and other care provider workforce. No grant awarded to a county under this section in any fiscal year may exceed an amount equal to $1.11 multiplied by the total number of persons residing in the county, as last determined by the department of administration under s. 16.96.

SB1089,2,10 (End)