The bill also converts to permanent positions 2.0 full-time GPR attorney
project positions that assist the Division of Criminal Investigation in Wausau and
Appleton and assist district attorneys in prosecuting drug-related offenses.

The bill provides funding and authorization for several project positions that,
under current law, are funded with federal funds and are set to expire and for several
new positions in the Office of School Safety in DOJ. The new positions include four
resources center analyst positions for the Speak Up, Speak Out program. The bill
also provides 4,160 hours of funding in the 2021-22 fiscal year and the same amount
in the 2022-23 fiscal year for limited-term employees to review materials submitted
by schools in accordance with 2017 Wisconsin Act 143. That act required schools to
submit guidelines and procedures to address school violence, attacks, and threats,
individual safety plans for each school building and facility, and blueprints of each
school building and facility.

Currently, DHS must award crisis program enhancement grants to counties or
multicounty regions to establish crisis programs to serve individuals having crises
in rural areas in amounts that are half of the amount the counties or regions provide
to establish or enhance the program. The bill eliminates the limitation that the
grants be related to rural areas and the requirement that the county or region
provide moneys itself in order to receive a grant. The bill increases the amount of
funding for the program from $250,000 per fiscal biennium of general purpose
revenue to $15,000,000 per fiscal biennium. Additionally, the bill increases general
purpose revenue funding for grants for mental health and substance use services
grants and programs, including peer-run respite centers and opioid and
methamphetamine treatment programs.

This bill requires DOJ to develop an Internet-based reporting system and a
telephone hotline for the reporting of hate crimes. Under the bill, DOJ must conduct
a public education campaign on hate crimes and where to report them and must
collect data relating to the reporting of hate crimes. Under the bill, DOJ is required
to submit a biennial report to the legislature on the reporting of hate crimes.

The bill also provides additional funding for higher education and for special
education aid the Department of Public Instruction pays to school districts,
independent charter schools, cooperative educational service agencies, and county
children with disabilities education boards, for purposes of maintaining compliance
with maintenance of effort requirements of the federal Consolidated Appropriations
Act and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

The bill changes the applicable time limits on prosecution when DNA evidence
implicates an individual in the commission of a felony.

Under current law, prosecution for a felony generally must be commenced
within six years of the commission of the felony, and prosecution of a misdemeanor
must be commenced within three years of the commission of the misdemeanor.
Certain crimes have a longer time limit on prosecutions, and prosecution for certain
crimes may be commenced at any time.

Under current law, if, within the applicable time limit on prosecution or, if there
is no time limit on prosecution, within six years of the commission of a felony, a DNA
sample is collected that implicates a person in the commission of a felony, the state
may commence prosecution of the person who is the source of the biological material
for the felony or a crime that is related to the felony within 12 months after the DNA
analysis results in a probable identification of the person or within the applicable
time limit on prosecution, whichever is latest.

Under the bill, the statute of limitations is reset at the time a person is
implicated in the commission of a felony by DNA evidence. Under the bill, the state
may commence prosecution of the person for the felony or a crime related to the felony

within the applicable statute of limitations beginning on the day that the person is
implicated in the crime by DNA evidence.

The bill creates a new crime of fraud scheme. Under current law, obtaining title
to property of another person by intentionally deceiving the person is a type of theft.
Under current law, multiple thefts may be charged as one offense if they are part of
a single deceptive scheme. The bill creates a new crime that combines these concepts
for circumstances when a single deceptive scheme results in theft by fraud.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,
the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a
report.