DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0364 - Veterans homes institutional operations funding
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
VETERANS
Transfer of funds
This bill transfers from the general fund to the DVA appropriation used for the institutional operations of veterans homes $7,100,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $14,800,000 in fiscal year 2026-27.
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. 20.485 (1) (gk) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.485 (1) (gk) Institutional operations. The amounts in the schedule for the care of the members of the Wisconsin veterans homes under s. 45.50, for the payment of stipends under s. 45.50 (2m) (f), for the transfer of moneys to the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (4) (ky) for payment of the state share of the medical assistance costs related to the provision of stipends under s. 45.50 (2m) (f), for the payment of assistance to indigent veterans under s. 45.43 to allow them to reside at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at Union Grove, for the transfer of moneys to the appropriation accounts under pars. (kc) and (kj), for the transfer of moneys in an amount up to $10,000,000 to the appropriation account under par. (ks), and for the payment of grants under s. 45.82. Not more than 1 percent of the moneys credited to this appropriation account may be used for the payment of assistance to indigent veterans under s. 45.43. All moneys received under par. (m) and s. 45.51 (7) (b) and (8) and all moneys received for the care of members under medical assistance, as defined in s. 49.43 (8), shall be credited to this appropriation account. All moneys transferred under 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9248 (1), shall be credited to this appropriation account. Except for the moneys transferred under this paragraph to the appropriation account under par. (kc), no moneys may be expended from this appropriation for the purposes specified in par. (kc).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 9248. Fiscal changes; Veterans Affairs.
(1) Veterans homes institutional operations. There is transferred from the general fund to the appropriation account under s. 20.485 (1) (gk) $7,100,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $14,800,000 in fiscal year 2026-27.
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