DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0025 - Extended Intensive Treatment Surcharge
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Behavioral health and developmental disabilities
Extended intensive treatment surcharge
Under current law, an individual may be placed at or transferred to a state center for the developmentally disabled if DHS and the individual’s county of residence agree upon a maximum discharge date for the individual, among other requirements. Currently, DHS may impose a surcharge on a county for certain services provided at a center for the developmentally disabled after an individual’s maximum discharge date. Under current law, all moneys received as payment for the surcharge must be provided to counties for onetime costs associated with relocating individuals from a center for the developmentally disabled. Under the bill, the surcharge must be used instead for the provision of alternative services by mental health institutes and centers for the developmentally disabled, such as residential, dental, and mental health services.
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:
Section 1. 20.435 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (2) (g) Alternative services of institutes and centers. All moneys received as payments for services under ss. 46.043 and 51.06 (1r) and (5) for provision of alternative services by mental health institutes under s. 46.043 and by centers for the developmentally disabled under s. 51.06 (1r).
****Note: I didn’t include “and (5)” after the second instance of s. 51.06 (1r), as provided in the model language, since that part of this paragraph relates to the purpose for which moneys may be expended under this appropriation rather than the source of the moneys. Okay?
Section 2. 20.435 (2) (gL) of the statutes is repealed.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 3. 46.275 (5) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
Section 4. 51.06 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
51.06 (5) Surcharge for extended intensive treatment. The department may impose on a county a progressive surcharge for services under sub. (1m) (d) that an individual receives after the maximum discharge date for the individual that was agreed upon under sub. (3) (b) 2. The surcharge is 10 percent of the amount paid for the individual’s services under s. 49.45 during any part of the first 6-month period following the maximum discharge date, and increases by 10 percent of the amount paid for the individual’s services under s. 49.45 during any part of each 6-month period thereafter. Any revenues received under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (2) (gL) (g).
Section 9219. Fiscal changes; Health Services.
(1) Extended intensive treatment surcharge balance transfer. The unencumbered balance in the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (2) (gL), 2023 stats., is transferred to the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (2) (g).
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