9,499
Section
499. 48.38 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.38 (2) Permanency plan required. (intro.) Except as provided in sub. (3), for each child living in a foster home, group home, residential care center for children and youth, juvenile detention facility, shelter care facility, qualifying residential family-based treatment facility with a parent, or supervised independent living arrangement, the agency that placed the child or arranged the placement or the agency assigned primary responsibility for providing services to the child under s. 48.355 (2) (b) 6g. shall prepare a written permanency plan, if any of the following conditions exists, and, for each child living in the home of a guardian or a relative other than a parent, that agency shall prepare a written permanency plan, if any of the conditions specified in pars. (a) to (e) exists:
9,500
Section
500. 48.38 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.38 (2) (d) The child was placed under a voluntary agreement between the agency and the child's parent under s. 48.63 (1) (a) or (bm) or (5) (b) or under a voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement under s. 48.366 (3).
9,501
Section
501. 48.38 (4) (em) of the statutes is created to read:
48.38 (4) (em) A recommendation regarding placement with a parent in a qualifying residential family-based treatment facility.
9,507
Section
507. 48.48 (17) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.48 (17) (a) 3. Provide appropriate protection and services for children and the expectant mothers of unborn children in its care, including providing services for those children and their families and for those expectant mothers in their own homes, placing the those children in licensed foster homes or group homes in this state or similar facilities regulated in another state within a reasonable proximity to the agency with legal custody, placing the those children in the homes of guardians under s. 48.977 (2), placing those children in a qualifying residential family-based treatment facility with a parent or in similar facilities regulated in another state, or contracting for services for those children by licensed child welfare agencies in this state or a similar child welfare agency regulated in another state, except that the department may not purchase the educational component of private day treatment programs unless the department, the school board, as defined in s. 115.001 (7), and the state superintendent of public instruction all determine that an appropriate public education program is not available. Disputes between the department and the school district shall be resolved by the state superintendent of public instruction.
9,508
Section
508. 48.48 (17) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.48 (17) (c) 4. Is living in a foster home, group home, or residential care center for children and youth, qualifying residential family-based treatment facility, or a similar facility regulated in another state or in a supervised independent living arrangement.
9,509
Section
509. 48.481 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
9,511
Section
511. 48.487 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.487 (1m) Tribal family services grants. From the appropriation account under s. 20.437 (1) (bd)
(js), the department may distribute tribal family services grants to the elected governing bodies of the Indian tribes in this state. An elected governing body that receives a grant under this subsection may expend the grant moneys received for any of the purposes specified in subs. (2), (3) (b), (4m) (b), (5) (b), (6), and (7) as determined by that body.
9,512
Section
512. 48.526 (7) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) Allocations of funds. (intro.) Within the limits of the availability of the appropriations under s. 20.437 (1) (cj) and (o), the department shall allocate funds for community youth and family aids for the period beginning on July 1, 2015 2019, and ending on June 30, 2017 2021, as provided in this subsection to county departments under ss. 46.215, 46.22, and 46.23 as follows:
9,513m
Section 513m. 48.526 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (a) For community youth and family aids under this section, amounts not to exceed $45,572,100 $45,383,600 for the last 6 months of 2015, $91,150,200 2019, $90,767,200 for 2016
2020, and $45,578,100 $45,383,600 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021.
9,514
Section
514. 48.526 (7) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (b) (intro.) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $2,000,000 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $4,000,000 for 2016 2020, and $2,000,000 for the first 6 months of 2017
2021 to counties based on each of the following factors weighted equally:
9,515
Section
515. 48.526 (7) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (bm) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $6,250,000 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $12,500,000 for 2016 2020, and $6,250,000 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021 to counties based on each county's proportion of the number of juveniles statewide who are placed in a juvenile correctional facility or a secured residential care center for children and youth during the most recent 3-year period for which that information is available.
9,516
Section
516. 48.526 (7) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (c) Of the amounts specified in par. (a), the department shall allocate $1,053,200 for the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $2,106,500 for 2016 2020, and $1,053,300 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021 to counties based on each of the factors specified in par. (b) 1. to 3. weighted equally, except that no county may receive an allocation under this paragraph that is less than 93 percent nor more than 115 percent of the amount that the county would have received under this paragraph if the allocation had been distributed only on the basis of the factor specified in par. (b) 3.
9,517
Section
517. 48.526 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (e) For emergencies related to community youth and family aids under this section, amounts not to exceed $125,000 for the last 6 months of 2015
2019, $250,000 for 2016 2020, and $125,000 for the first 6 months of 2017 2021. A county is eligible for payments under this paragraph only if it has a population of not more than 45,000.
9,518
Section
518. 48.526 (7) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (7) (h) For counties that are purchasing community supervision services under s. 938.533 (2), $1,062,400 in the last 6 months of 2017 2019, $2,124,800 in 2018 2020, and $1,062,400 in the first 6 months of 2019 2021 for the provision of community supervision services for juveniles from that county. In distributing funds to counties under this paragraph, the department shall distribute to each county the full amount of the charges for the services purchased by that county, except that if the amounts available under this paragraph are insufficient to distribute that full amount, the department shall distribute those available amounts to each county that purchases community supervision services based on the ratio that the charges to that county for those services bear to the total charges to all counties that purchase those services.
9,519
Section
519. 48.526 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.526 (8) Alcohol and other drug abuse treatment. From the amount of the allocations specified in sub. (7) (a), the department shall allocate $666,700 in the last 6 months of 2015 2019, $1,333,400 in 2016 2020, and $666,700 in the first 6 months of 2017 2021 for alcohol and other drug abuse treatment programs.