AB50: Bill Text

AB50,974 Section 974. 49.175 (1) (Lp) of the statutes is repealed.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

AB50,993 Section 993. 49.345 (14) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,534,17 49.345 (14) (e) 1. An order issued 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 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., for support determined under this subsection constitutes an assignment of all commissions, earnings, salaries, wages, pension benefits, income continuation insurance benefits under s. 40.62, duty disability benefits under s. 40.65, benefits under ch. 102 or 108, and other money due or to be due in the future to the county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, or 46.23 in the county where the order was entered or to the department, depending upon the placement of the child as specified by rules promulgated under subd. 5. The assignment shall be for an amount sufficient to ensure payment under the order.

AB50,994 Section 994. 49.43 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,534,21 49.43 (12) “Spouse” means the legal husband or wife of person to whom the beneficiary is legally married, whether or not the person is eligible for medical assistance.

AB50,995 Section 995. 49.45 (2p) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,996 Section 996. 49.45 (2t) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,997 Section 997. 49.45 (3) (e) 11. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,535,12 49.45 (3) (e) 11. The department shall use a portion of the moneys collected under s. 50.38 (2) (a) to pay for services provided by eligible hospitals, as defined in s. 50.38 (1), other than critical access hospitals, under the Medical Assistance Program under this subchapter, including services reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and services provided under a managed care system. For state fiscal year 2008-09, total payments required under this subdivision, including both the federal and state share of Medical Assistance, shall equal the amount collected under s. 50.38 (2) (a) for fiscal year 2008-09 divided by 57.75 percent. For each state fiscal year after state fiscal year 2008-09, total payments required under this subdivision, including both the federal and state share of Medical Assistance, shall equal the amount collected under s. 50.38 (2) (a) for the fiscal year divided by 61.68 62.39 percent.

AB50,998 Section 998. 49.45 (3) (e) 12. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,535,23 49.45 (3) (e) 12. The department shall use a portion of the moneys collected under s. 50.38 (2) (b) to pay for services provided by critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program under this subchapter, including services reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and services provided under a managed care system. For each state fiscal year, total payments required under this subdivision, including both the federal and state share of Medical Assistance, shall equal the amount collected under s. 50.38 (2) (b) for the fiscal year divided by 61.68 percent $49,392,400. The department may use funds in the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (b), as necessary, to fund the nonfederal share of payments under this subdivision.

AB50,999 Section 999. 49.45 (3h) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,536,6 49.45 (3h) Payments to rural health clinics. (a) For services provided by a rural health clinic on or after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], and before July 1, 2026, to a recipient of the Medical Assistance program under this subchapter, the department shall reimburse the rural health clinic under a payment methodology in effect on July 1, 2025, and in accordance with 42 USC 1396a (bb) (6).

AB50,536,12 (b) For services provided by a rural health clinic on or after July 1, 2026, to a recipient of the Medical Assistance program under this subchapter, the department shall reimburse the rural health clinic using a payment methodology based on the Medicaid prospective payment system under 42 USC 1396a (bb) (1) to (3). The department shall consult with rural health clinics in developing the payment methodology under this paragraph.

AB50,1000 Section 1000. 49.45 (6xm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,536,17 49.45 (6xm) Pediatric inpatient supplement. (a) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (4) (b), (o), and (w), the department shall, using a method determined by the department, distribute a total sum of $2,000,000 in each state fiscal year to hospitals that meet all of the following criteria:

AB50,536,18 1. The hospital is an acute care hospital located in this state.

AB50,536,23 2. During the hospital’s fiscal year, the inpatient days in the hospital’s acute care pediatric units and intensive care pediatric units totaled more than 12,000 days, not including neonatal intensive care units. For purposes of this subdivision, the hospital’s fiscal year is the hospital’s fiscal year that ended in the 2nd calendar year preceding the beginning of the state fiscal year.

AB50,537,4 (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), from the appropriations under s. 20.435 (4) (b), (o), and (w), the department may, using a method determined by the department, distribute an additional total sum of $7,500,000 in each state fiscal year to hospitals that are free-standing pediatric teaching hospitals located in Wisconsin that have a percentage calculated under s. 49.45 (3m) (b) 1. a. greater than 45 percent.

AB50,1001 Section 1001. 49.45 (19) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,537,12 49.45 (19) (a) As a condition of eligibility for medical assistance, a person shall, notwithstanding other provisions of the statutes except as provided in par. (cm), be deemed to have assigned to the state, by applying for or receiving medical assistance, any rights to medical support or other payment of medical expenses from any other person, including rights to unpaid amounts accrued at the time of application for medical assistance as well as any rights to support accruing during the time for which medical assistance is paid.

AB50,1002 Section 1002. 49.45 (19) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1003 Section 1003. 49.45 (19) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,537,16 49.45 (19) (cm) Notwithstanding par. (a), birth expenses may not be recovered by the state under this subsection.

AB50,1004 Section 1004. 49.45 (23) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1005 Section 1005. 49.45 (23b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1006 Section 1006. 49.45 (24k) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1007 Section 1007. 49.45 (24L) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,538,2 49.45 (24L) Statewide dental contract. The department shall submit any necessary request to the federal department of health and human services for a state plan amendment or waiver of federal Medicaid law to implement a statewide contract for dental benefits through a single vendor under the Medical Assistance program. If the federal government disapproves the amendment or waiver request, the department is not required to implement this subsection.

AB50,1008 Section 1008. 49.45 (25c) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,538,9 49.45 (25c) Children’s behavioral health specialty managed care. The department may request a waiver from the federal department of health and human services to administer a children’s behavioral health specialty managed care program under the Medical Assistance program. If the waiver is granted, the department may administer the children’s behavioral health specialty managed care program under this subsection.

AB50,1009 Section 1009. 49.45 (25d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,538,15 49.45 (25d) Health-related social needs. The department shall request a waiver from the federal department of health and human services to provide reimbursement for services for health-related social needs under the Medical Assistance program. If the waiver is granted, the department shall provide reimbursement for services for health-related social needs under this subsection.

AB50,1010 Section 1010. 49.45 (30) (a) of the statutes is repealed.

AB50,1011 Section 1011. 49.45 (30) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 49.45 (30) and amended to read:

AB50,538,24 49.45 (30) Services provided by community support programs. The department shall reimburse a provider of county that provides services under s. 49.46 (2) (b) 6. L. only for the amount of the allowable charges for those services under the Medical Assistance program that is provided by the federal government and for the amount of the allowable charges for those services under the Medical Assistance program that is not provided by the federal government.

AB50,1012 Section 1012. 49.45 (30j) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,539,3 49.45 (30j) (title) Reimbursement for peer recovery coach and certified peer specialist services.

AB50,1013 Section 1013. 49.45 (30j) (a) 1. and 2. of the statutes are renumbered 49.45 (30j) (a) 2m. and 3.

AB50,1014 Section 1014. 49.45 (30j) (a) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,539,10 49.45 (30j) (a) 1m. “Certified peer specialist” means an individual who has experience in the mental health and substance use services system, who is trained to provide support to others, and who has received peer specialist or parent peer specialist certification under the rules established by the department.

AB50,1015 Section 1015. 49.45 (30j) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB50,539,14 49.45 (30j) (bm) The department shall reimburse under the Medical Assistance program under this subchapter any service provided by a certified peer specialist if the service satisfies all of the following conditions:

AB50,539,16 1. The recipient of the service provided by a certified peer specialist is in treatment for or recovery from a mental illness or a substance use disorder.

AB50,539,18 2. The certified peer specialist provides the service under the supervision of a competent mental health professional.

AB50,539,21 3. The certified peer specialist provides the service in coordination with the Medical Assistance recipient’s individual treatment plan and in accordance with the recipient’s individual treatment goals.

AB50,540,2 4. The certified peer specialist providing the service has completed training requirements, as established by the department by rule, after consulting with members of the recovery community.

AB50,1016 Section 1016. 49.45 (30j) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB50,540,6 49.45 (30j) (c) The department shall certify under Medical Assistance peer recovery coaches and certified peer specialists to provide services in accordance with this subsection.