This bill requires the Technical College System Board to award a grant of
$9,600,000 in the 2021-22 fiscal year to Mid-State Technical College for a
manufacturing engineering apprenticeship center. The bill also provides funding for
the grant through a continuing appropriation.

This bill instructs DHS to annually award $1,750,000 in grants to
community-serving organizations that are led by Black women that improve Black
women's health in Dane, Milwaukee, Rock, and Kenosha Counties. Further, the bill
directs DHS to annually award $1,750,000 in grants to organizations that work to
reduce racial disparities related to infant and maternal mortality. Additionally, this
bill instructs DHS to award a grant totaling $500,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 and
another grant totaling $500,000 in fiscal year 2022-23 to an entity to coordinate
efforts among the state, public and private sector organizations, and community
organizations to support a statewide strategy to advance Black women's health.

This bill directs DHS to annually award grants in the amount of $15,000,000
for community health workers.

This bill directs DHS to award grants in the total amount of $53,000,000 to
create federally qualified health centers in Racine County before June 30, 2023.
Federally qualified health centers are community-based health care providers that
serve an underserved area or population.

This bill provides $5,500,000 in each fiscal year of the 2021-23 biennium to
support emergency medical services in rural areas.

This bill appropriates $4,000,000 in general purpose revenue for DHS to give
the county-owned Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County in Darlington a grant for
its facility planning, expansion, and construction.

This bill requires DHS to award a grant to an organization that applies to DHS
and that provides mental and behavioral health services in north central Wisconsin
and has a campus in Marathon County. The grant is in the amount of $5,000,000 for
the purpose of expanding mental health bed capacity. The organization that is
awarded the grant under the bill must do all of the following: 1) agree to renovate
or expand its existing mental health campus to provide additional capacity for
mental health treatment; 2) identify measures that it believes will serve the needs
of area residents with mental health needs, especially, as a critical component of the
measures, in reducing the burden on state-operated facilities; and 3) report annually
to the legislature the services provided with the resources funding by the grant. The
organization that receives the grant is liable to repay the grant funds to the state if
the organization fails to continue to maintain the expanded mental health services
for an agreed upon period.

This bill provides $25,000,000 general purpose revenue in each fiscal year of the
2021-23 biennium to fund DHS mental health services, initiatives, programs, and
facilities.

This bill increases by $3,000,000 in each fiscal year the funding for grants to
community health centers. Under current law, DHS must award grants to each
community health center that receives federal grants in an amount calculated by
multiplying the amount of state funds available for all community health centers by
the fraction obtained by dividing the amount of federal grant moneys that the
particular community health center receives by the total amount of federal grant
moneys paid to all Wisconsin community health centers. The additional funding
provided in the bill is to be divided among community health centers in the same
manner as current law.

This bill incorporates into statutory language the allocation made in 2019
Wisconsin Act 9, the biennial budget act, that requires DHS to give $500,000 in
grants annually to free and charitable clinics. The bill also increases the annual
grant to free and charitable clinics from $500,000 to $3,500,000

This bill requires DHS to award grants to organizations or coalitions of
organizations, including cities, villages, towns, counties, and federally recognized
American Indian tribes or bands for suicide prevention programming. A grant
recipient must contribute matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal
to at least 20 percent of the grant amount.

This bill requires DHS to award grants to organizations or coalitions of
organizations, including cities, villages, towns, counties, and federally recognized
American Indian tribes or bands, for 1) training staff at a firearm retailer or firearm
range on how to recognize a person who may be considering suicide; 2) providing
suicide prevention materials for distribution at a firearm retailer or firearm range;
or 3) providing voluntary, temporary firearm storage. A grant recipient must
contribute matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal to at least 20
percent of the grant amount.

This bill appropriates $500,000 from the general fund for the creation and
funding of a tuition assistance grant program under which the Technical College
System Board shall award grants to current or prospective farmers in the state for
the purpose of paying no more than 50 percent of tuition costs for enrolling in
Wisconsin technical college courses on farm management or farm finance. A current
or prospective farmer may receive no more than $1,000 in these grants per year for
no more than three years.

This bill appropriates $100,000,000 from the general fund to the environmental
improvement program for projects involving forgivable loans to private users of
public water systems to cover not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead
service lines.

Under current law, DOA and DNR administer the safe drinking water loan
program (SDWLP), which provides financial assistance from the environmental
improvement program to local governmental units and to the private owners of
community water systems that serve local governmental units for projects for the
planning, designing, construction, or modification of public water systems. DNR
establishes a funding list for SDWLP projects and DOA allocates funding for those
projects.