April 13, 2021 - Offered by Representatives Anderson, Baldeh, Billings, Bowen,
Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke,
Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hong, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy,
Moore Omokunde, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Pope,
Riemer, S. Rodriguez, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer,
Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink.

AB233-ASA1,1,6 1An Act to repeal 49.45 (2p) and 49.45 (23); to amend 20.435 (4) (jw), 49.45 (23b)
2(title), 49.45 (23b) (b), 49.45 (23b) (c), 49.45 (23b) (e), 49.471 (4) (a) 4. b. and
349.686 (3) (d); and to create 20.835 (2) (ba), 49.471 (1) (cr), 49.471 (4) (a) 8. and
449.471 (4g) of the statutes; relating to: grants for certain small businesses,
5eligibility expansion under the Medical Assistance program, and making an
6appropriation.

This bill requires the Department of Revenue to provide grants to businesses
in this state that had total sales in 2019 of less than $7 million and suffered economic
damage as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the bill, the total amount of
the grants to be awarded to all recipients is $600 million.

BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core are programs under the state's
Medical Assistance program, which provides health services to individuals who have
limited financial resources. The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

allows a state to receive an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage payment
for providing benefits to certain individuals through a state's Medical Assistance
program. This bill changes the family income eligibility level to up to 133 percent
of the federal poverty line for parents and caretaker relatives under BadgerCare Plus
and for childless adults currently covered under BadgerCare Plus Core and who are
incorporated into BadgerCare Plus in this bill. The bill requires the Department of
Health Services to comply with all federal requirements and to request any
amendment to the state Medical Assistance plan, waiver of Medicaid law, or other
federal approval necessary to qualify for the highest available enhanced federal
medical assistance percentage for childless adults under the BadgerCare Plus
program.