AB50: Bill Text

AB50,951 Section 951. 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,523,2 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. If the individual is a relative of the child, is providing care for the child under a court order, and is receiving payments under s. 48.57 (3m) or (3n) on behalf of the child, the child’s biological natural or adoptive family has a gross income that is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. In calculating the gross income of the child’s biological natural or adoptive family, the department or county department or agency determining eligibility shall include court-ordered child or family support payments received by the individual, if those support payments exceed $1,250 per month, and income described under s. 49.145 (3) (b) 1. and 3.

AB50,952 Section 952. 49.155 (1m) (cm) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,523,6 49.155 (1m) (cm) 3. A relative of the child An individual who is providing care for the child under a court order and receiving payments under s. 48.57 (3m) or (3n) on behalf of the child.

AB50,953 Section 953. 49.155 (1s) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,523,11 49.155 (1s) Presumptive eligibility. (a) The department may find an individual presumptively eligible for a child care subsidy while the department determines the individual’s actual eligibility under sub. (1m) if all the following conditions are met:

AB50,523,13 1. The individual submits to the department a report establishing that the individual meets the conditions under sub. (1m).

AB50,523,15 2. The department is able to plausibly assume that the individual meets the conditions under sub. (1m) based on the report under subd. 1.

AB50,523,18 (b) Upon finding an individual presumptively eligible for child care subsidies under this subsection, the department shall immediately begin issuing benefits to the individual under sub. (3m).

AB50,523,20 (c) An individual may be presumptively eligible for child care subsidies under this subsection for no more than 3 months.

AB50,523,24 (d) If the department determines that an individual found presumptively eligible for child care subsidies under this subsection is actually ineligible for child care subsidies under sub. (1m), the department shall immediately discontinue issuing benefits to the individual under sub. (3m).

AB50,954 Section 954. 49.155 (6) (e) 2., 3. and 5. of the statutes are repealed.

AB50,955 Section 955. 49.163 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,524,6 49.163 (2) (am) 2. If over 25 years of age, be a biological natural or adoptive parent of a child under 18 years of age whose parental rights to the child have not been terminated or be a relative and primary caregiver of a child under 18 years of age.

AB50,956 Section 956. 49.163 (2) (am) 4. of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,957 Section 957. 49.163 (2) (am) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,524,10 49.163 (2) (am) 5. Be ineligible Have not filed for unemployment insurance benefits or have filed but is not eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

AB50,958 Section 958. 49.1632 of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,524,17 49.1632 Expanded Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and Transitional Jobs program. From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (2) (fn), the department shall establish programs identical to the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and Transitional Jobs program under s. 49.163 except that an individual is not required to satisfy the eligibility criteria under s. 49.163 (2) (am) 2. and 3. in order to participate.

AB50,959 Section 959. 49.1635 (1) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,960 Section 960. 49.1635 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,961 Section 961. 49.1635 (3) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,962 Section 962. 49.1635 (4) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,963 Section 963. 49.1635 (5) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (1m) and amended to read:

AB50,525,4 49.1635 (1m) From the allocation under s. 49.175 (1) (j), the department shall make a grant of $500,000 $4,500,000 in each fiscal year to Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., for distribution of annual awards of not more than $75,000 per year per program to programs that provide legal services to persons who are eligible under par. (b) 2. sub. (2m) (b) if all of the following apply:

AB50,525,8 (a) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., submits a plan to the department detailing the proposed use of the grant; the proposed use of the grant conforms to the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m); and the secretary of the department, or his or her designee, approves the plan.

AB50,525,12 (b) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., enters into an agreement with the department that specifies the conditions for the use of the grant proceeds, and the conditions conform to the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m) and include training, reporting, and auditing requirements.

AB50,525,15 (c) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., agrees in writing to submit to the department the reports required under par. (c) sub. (3m) by the times required under par. (c) sub. (3m).

AB50,964 Section 964. 49.1635 (5) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (2m), and 49.1635 (2m) (a), as renumbered, is amended to read:

AB50,525,21 49.1635 (2m) (a) Subject to subd. 3. par. (c), the grant may be used only to provide legal services in civil matters related to eviction, domestic abuse, or sexual abuse, or to restraining orders or injunctions for individuals at risk under s. 813.123.

AB50,965 Section 965. 49.1635 (5) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (3m) and amended to read:

AB50,526,9 49.1635 (3m) For each fiscal year in which the department makes a grant under this subsection section, Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., shall submit to the department, within 3 months after spending the full amount of that grant, a report detailing how the grant proceeds were used. The department may not make a grant in a subsequent fiscal year unless Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., submits the report under this paragraph subsection within the time required and the department determines that the grant proceeds were used in accordance with the approved plan under par. (a) 1. sub. (1m) (a), the agreement under par. (a) 2. sub. (1m) (b), and the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m).

AB50,966 Section 966. 49.175 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,526,14 49.175 (1) (a) Wisconsin Works benefits. For Wisconsin Works benefits, $37,000,000 $26,806,500 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $34,000,000 $26,987,700 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such benefits, $28,000,000. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such benefits, $29,000,000 2026-27.

AB50,967 Section 967. 49.175 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,526,19 49.175 (1) (b) Wisconsin Works agency contracts; job access loans. For contracts with Wisconsin Works agencies under s. 49.143 and for job access loans under s. 49.147 (6), $54,009,700 $58,892,400 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $57,071,200 $59,071,200 in each fiscal year thereafter 2026-27.

AB50,968 Section 968. 49.175 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,526,24 49.175 (1) (f) Homeless case management services grants. For grants to shelter facilities under s. 16.3085, $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year. All moneys allocated under this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (7) (kg).

AB50,969 Section 969. 49.175 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,527,7 49.175 (1) (g) State administration of public assistance programs and overpayment collections. For state administration of public assistance programs and the collection of public assistance overpayments, $17,231,100 $25,258,600 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $17,482,300 $25,707,800 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such purposes, $19,015,300. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such purposes, $19,424,300 2026-27.

AB50,970 Section 970. 49.175 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,527,12 49.175 (1) (i) Emergency assistance. For emergency assistance under s. 49.138 and for transfer to the department of administration for low-income energy or weatherization assistance programs, $6,000,000 $10,414,400 in each fiscal year 2025-26 and $10,141,300 in fiscal year 2026-27.

AB50,971 Section 971. 49.175 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,527,17 49.175 (1) (j) Grants for providing civil legal services. For the grants under s. 49.1635 (5) to Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., for distribution to programs that provide civil legal services to low-income families, $500,000 $4,500,000 in each fiscal year.

AB50,972 Section 972. 49.175 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,527,21 49.175 (1) (k) Transform Milwaukee and Transitional Jobs programs. For contract costs under the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program under s. 49.163, $9,500,000 $12,475,000 in each fiscal year.

AB50,973 Section 973. 49.175 (1) (Lm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,528,2 49.175 (1) (Lm) Jobs for America’s Graduates. For grants to the Jobs for America’s Graduates-Wisconsin to fund programs that improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., in each fiscal year, $1,000,000 $2,000,000.

AB50,974 Section 974. 49.175 (1) (Lp) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,975 Section 975. 49.175 (1) (ms) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,528,7 49.175 (1) (ms) Child support debt reduction. For the child support debt reduction program for noncustodial parents under s. 49.226, $3,472,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $6,944,000 in fiscal year 2026-27.

AB50,976 Section 976. 49.175 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,528,13 49.175 (1) (p) Direct child care services. For direct child care services under s. 49.155 or 49.257, $376,700,400 $438,582,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $383,900,400 $459,111,600 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such direct child care services, $368,834,800. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such direct child care services, $428,779,700 2026-27.

AB50,977 Section 977. 49.175 (1) (q) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,528,20 49.175 (1) (q) Child care state administration and licensing activities. For state administration of child care programs under s. 49.155 and for child care licensing activities, $42,117,800 $52,983,800 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $41,803,100 $53,723,400 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such programs and activities, $45,796,000. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such programs and activities, $45,570,300 2026-27.

AB50,978 Section 978. 49.175 (1) (qm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,529,2 49.175 (1) (qm) Quality care for quality kids. For the child care quality improvement activities specified in ss. 49.133, 49.155 (1g) and 49.257, $16,683,700 $49,446,300 in each fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such activities, $28,518,700. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such activities, $46,018,700.

AB50,979 Section 979. 49.175 (1) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,529,8 49.175 (1) (r) Children of recipients of supplemental security income. For payments made under s. 49.775 for the support of the dependent children of recipients of supplemental security income, $18,564,700 $19,262,100 in each fiscal year 2021-22 and $18,145,000 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such payments, $9,699,900. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such payments, $10,990,400.

AB50,980 Section 980. 49.175 (1) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,529,18 49.175 (1) (s) Kinship care and long-term kinship care assistance. For kinship care and long-term kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3m) (am) and (3n) (am), for assessments to determine eligibility for those payments, and for agreements under s. 48.57 (3t) with the governing bodies of Indian tribes for the administration of the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs within the boundaries of the reservations of those tribes, $28,727,100 $45,686,700 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $31,441,800 $53,125,600 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such payments, $31,719,200. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such payments, $35,661,000 2026-27.

AB50,981 Section 981. 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,530,8 49.175 (1) (z) Grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. For grants to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to fund programs that improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., focusing on study habits, intensive tutoring in math and English, and exposure to career options and role models, $2,807,000 $9,507,000 in each fiscal year. Grants provided under this paragraph may not be used by the grant recipient to replace funding for programs that are being funded, when the grant proceeds are received, with moneys other than those from the appropriations specified in sub. (1) (intro.). The total amount of the grants includes funds for the BE GREAT: Graduate program in the amount of matching funds that the program provides, up to $1,532,000 in each fiscal year, to be used only for activities for which federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant moneys may be used.

AB50,982 Section 982. 49.175 (1) (zh) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,530,15 49.175 (1) (zh) Earned income tax credit supplement. For the transfer of moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.437 (2) (md) to the appropriation account under s. 20.835 (2) (kf) for the earned income tax credit, $63,600,000 $100,907,800 in fiscal year 2021-22 2025-26 and $66,600,000 $101,558,500 in fiscal year 2022-23. In fiscal year 2023-24, for such purposes, $61,725,000. In fiscal year 2024-25, for such purposes, $65,002,000 2026-27.

AB50,983 Section 983. 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,3 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. Is living with a parent; a blood relative, including those of half-blood, and including first cousins, nephews or nieces and persons of preceding generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great or great-great; a stepfather, stepmother stepparent, stepbrother, or stepsister; a person who legally adopts the child or is the adoptive parent of the child’s parent, a natural or legally adopted child of such person or a relative of an adoptive parent; or a spouse of any person named in this subparagraph subd. 2. a. even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce; and is living in a residence maintained by one or more of these relatives as the child’s or their own home, or living in a residence maintained by one or more of these relatives as the child’s or their own home because the parents of the child have been found unfit to have care and custody of the child; or

AB50,984 Section 984. 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,7 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) Aid may be granted to the mother or stepmother parent or stepparent of a dependent child if he or she is without a husband spouse or if he or she:

AB50,985 Section 985. 49.19 (4) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,10 49.19 (4) (d) 1. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incapacitated for gainful work by mental or physical disability; or

AB50,986 Section 986. 49.19 (4) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,15 49.19 (4) (d) 2. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incarcerated or who is a convicted offender permitted to live at home but precluded from earning a wage because the husband person is required by a court imposed sentence to perform unpaid public work or unpaid community service; or

AB50,987 Section 987. 49.19 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,19 49.19 (4) (d) 3. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has been committed to the department pursuant to ch. 975, irrespective of the probable period of such commitment; or

AB50,988 Section 988. 49.19 (4) (d) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,531,23 49.19 (4) (d) 4. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has continuously abandoned or failed to support him or her, if proceedings have been commenced against the husband person under ch. 769; or

AB50,989 Section 989. 49.19 (4) (d) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,532,5 49.19 (4) (d) 5. Has been divorced and is without a husband spouse or legally separated from his or her husband spouse and is unable through use of the provisions of law to compel his or her former husband spouse to adequately support the child for whom aid is sought; or

AB50,990 Section 990. 49.226 of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,532,10 49.226 Child support debt reduction. (1) The department shall establish a program to provide noncustodial child support debt reduction. A noncustodial parent qualifies to receive up to $1,500 in debt reduction under this section if all of the following apply:

AB50,532,12 (a) The noncustodial parent completes an eligible employment program, as defined by the department in rules promulgated under sub. (3).

AB50,532,14 (b) The custodial parent agrees to reducing child support debt owed up to the amount of the benefit paid.

AB50,532,16 (2) A noncustodial parent may not receive debt reduction under sub. (1) more than once in any 12-month period.

AB50,532,19 (3) The department shall promulgate rules to implement this section, including rules to determine how debt reduction provided under sub. (1) is apportioned among multiple child support orders.

AB50,991 Section 991. 49.345 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,533,4 49.345 (1) Liability and the collection and enforcement of such liability for the care, maintenance, services, and supplies specified in this section are governed exclusively by this section, except in cases of child support ordered by a court under s. 48.355 (2) (b) 4. or (4g) (a), 48.357 (5m) (a), 48.363 (2), 938.183 (4), 938.355 (2) (b) 4. (4g) (a), 938.357 (5m) (a), or 938.363 (2) or ch. 767 or s. 48.355 (2) (b) 4., 2023 stats., s. 48.357 (5m) (a), 2023 stats., s. 938.355 (2) (b) 4., 2023 stats., or s. 938.357 (5m) (a), 2023 stats.

AB50,992 Section 992. 49.345 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,534,4 49.345 (2) Except as provided in sub. (14) (b) and (c), any person, including a person placed under s. 48.32 (1) (am) or (b), 48.345 (3), 48.357 (1) or (2m), 938.183, 938.34 (3) or (4d), or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance, services, and supplies provided by any institution in this state, in which the state is chargeable with all or part of the person’s care, maintenance, services, and supplies, and the person’s property and estate, including the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the spouse’s property and estate, including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor child, the parents of the person, and their property and estates, including their homestead, 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, and his or her property and estate, including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance, services, and supplies in accordance with the fee schedule established by the department under s. 49.32 (1). If a spouse, widow surviving spouse, or minor, or an incapacitated person may be lawfully dependent upon the property for his or her support, the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from the charges that may be necessary to provide for the person. The department shall make every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible after the beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt of the notice is not a condition of liability.