2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-4114/1
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July 31, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Spaude, Sinicki, Phelps, Brown, Rivera-Wagner, McCarville, Tenorio, Doyle, Cruz, Neubauer, DeSmidt, Sheehan, Roe, Taylor, Goodwin, Andraca, Moore Omokunde, Hysell, Franklin, Fitzgerald, Anderson, Moses and Stroud, cosponsored by Senators Smith, Wall, Hesselbein, Dassler-Alfheim, Ratcliff, Carpenter, Roys, Larson, Spreitzer, James, Keyeski, Habush Sinykin, Drake, Wirch, L. Johnson and Pfaff. Referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.
AB383,1,2
1An Act relating to: the veterans housing and recovery program and making
2an appropriation. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill provides to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs $900,000 in 2025-26 and $1,050,000 in 2026-27 for the veterans housing and recovery program to increase funding for supplies and services costs for the program’s three locations in Chippewa Falls, Green Bay, and Union Grove and for costs associated with leasing a different facility for the Chippewa Falls-based program due to space and facility deficiencies of the current location.
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:
AB383,2,94(1) Veterans housing and recovery program. In the schedule under s. 520.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of veterans affairs under s.
120.485 (2) (rm), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is increased by $900,000 2to increase funding for supplies and services costs in the program, and for costs 3associated with leasing a different facility for the Chippewa Falls–based program 4due to space and facility deficiencies of the current location. In the schedule under 5s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of veterans affairs under s. 620.485 (2) (rm), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2026-27 is increased by $1,050,000 7to increase funding for supplies and services costs in the program, and for costs 8associated with leasing a different facility for the Chippewa Falls–based program 9due to space and facility deficiencies of the current location.