DOA:......Rice, BB0397 - Milwaukee County Housing First initiative
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
HOUSING
Grants to Milwaukee County Housing First
This bill directs DOA to award two grants of $100,000 in fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 to the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services to support Milwaukee County’s Housing First initiative.
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. 20.505 (7) (fe) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (7) (fe) Grants for Milwaukee County Housing First. The amounts in the schedule for payments under 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9101 (1).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 20.505 (7) (fe) of the statutes, as created by 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation, but should not be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats., because of a delayed effective date.
Section 9101. Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.
(1) Grants for Milwaukee County Housing First. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (7) (fe), the department of administration shall award grants of $100,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $100,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to the Milwaukee County department of health and human services to support Milwaukee County’s Housing First initiative.
Section 9401. Effective dates; Administration.
(1) Grants for Milwaukee County Housing First. The repeal of s. 20.505 (7) (fe) takes effect on July 1, 2027.
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