2023 Wisconsin Act 85

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”

  Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Senate Bill 527   Date of publication*: December 7, 2023

2023 WISCONSIN ACT 85

An Act to create 51.72 of the statutes; relating to: grants for suicide prevention programming.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

85,1 Section 1. 51.72 of the statutes is created to read:

51.72 Suicide prevention programming grants. (1) From the federal funds set aside under sub. (2), the department shall award grants to organizations or coalitions of organizations, which may include a city, village, town, county, or federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state, for suicide prevention programming.

(2) Each fiscal year, the department shall set aside $250,000 from the federal funds received under 42 USC 300x to 300x-9 for the purpose of awarding grants under sub. (1). The department may not encumber the federal funds set aside under this subsection during the fiscal year in which the funds are set aside for any purpose other than awarding grants under sub. (1).

(3) The department may not award a grant under sub. (1) unless the recipient contributes matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal to at least 20 percent of the grant.

(4) The department may award a grant to a recipient under sub. (1) for an amount up to $25,000 in a particular fiscal year.