DOA:......Lessner, BB0249 - Crisis Stabilization Facilities Funding
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
Crisis stabilization facilities grants
This bill requires DHS to award grants for services at facilities providing crisis stabilization services. Under the bill, “crisis stabilization services” are optional emergency mental health services that provide short-term, intensive, community-based services to avoid the need for inpatient hospitalization.
For further information see the state 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 (5) (dg) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (5) (dg) Grants for crisis stabilization facilities. The amounts in the schedule for grants to facilities that provide crisis stabilization services under s. 51.03 (7).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 51.03 (7) of the statutes is created to read:
51.03 (7) The department shall award grants to fund services at facilities that provide crisis stabilization services, as defined in s. 51.043 (1) (b), based on criteria established by the department.
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