LRB-4668/1
EAW:cjs
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
December 5, 2019 - Introduced by Representatives Subeck, Vining, Doyle,
Crowley, Zamarripa, C. Taylor, Sinicki, Sargent, Neubauer, Milroy,
Hesselbein, Hebl, Emerson, Brostoff, Bowen, Billings and Anderson,
cosponsored by Senators Smith and Wirch. Referred to Committee on
Children and Families.
AB657,1,2
1An Act to create 20.437 (1) (dm) and 48.483 of the statutes;
relating to:
2scholarships for sibling connections and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Children and Families to provide
scholarships to adopted children and their biological siblings who do not reside in the
same household to attend programs together in order to build sibling connections.
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:
AB657,1
3Section
1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
4the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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See PDF for table 
AB657,2
1Section
2. 20.437 (1) (dm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB657,2,32
20.437
(1) (dm)
Sibling connections scholarship. The amounts in the schedule
3for the scholarship program under s. 48.483.
AB657,3
4Section
3. 48.483 of the statutes is created to read:
AB657,2,8
548.483 Sibling connections scholarships. From the appropriation under
6s. 20.437 (1) (dm), the department shall award scholarships to adopted children and
7their biological siblings who do not reside in the same household to attend programs
8together in order to build sibling connections.
