AB978: Bill Text

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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE

2019 Assembly BILL 978

March 2, 2020 - Introduced by Representative Shankland, cosponsored by Senators Smith and Schachtner. Referred to Committee on Mental Health.

AB978,1,2 An Act relating to: grants for crisis intervention teams and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides $1,000,000 for the Department of Health Services to award grants to local governmental units for the staffing of law enforcement agencies with mental health crisis intervention teams. Under current law, DHS must award grants totalling $250,000 in each fiscal biennium for mental health crisis intervention team training for law enforcement agencies and correctional officers.

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:

AB978,1 Section 1. Fiscal changes.

AB978,2,2 (1) Crisis intervention team grants. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of health services under s. 20.435 (5) (cd), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2019-20 is increased by $1,000,000 to award grants, as determined by the department of health services, to local governmental units for the staffing of law enforcement agencies with mental health crisis intervention teams.

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