For further information see the state and local 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:

SB881,1 Section 1 . 20.505 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB881,4,6 20.505 (4) (d) Claims awards. A sum sufficient for payment of awards made by the claims board or department of administration under ss. 16.007, 775.05 (4), 775.06 and 775.11, awards of financial assistance under s. 808.085, and awards made by an act of the legislature arising from a claim filed with the claims board which are not directed by law or under s. 16.007 (6m) to be paid from another appropriation.

SB881,2 Section 2 . 20.515 (1) (ds) of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,4,11 20.515 (1) (ds) Payment of health insurance premiums for individuals who receive compensation for wrongful imprisonment. A sum sufficient to pay the state's share of premium costs for health care benefits and the cost of administering the benefits for individuals under s. 40.516.

SB881,3 Section 3 . 20.515 (1) (g) of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,4,17 20.515 (1) (g) Benefit and coverage payments; health care coverage for individuals who receive compensation for wrongful imprisonment. All moneys received from individuals under s. 40.516 who elect to be included in a health care coverage plan under s. 40.51 (6), for the payment of benefits and the cost of administering benefits for the individuals.

SB881,4 Section 4 . 40.51 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB881,5,4 40.51 (1) The procedures and provisions pertaining to enrollment, premium transmitted and coverage of eligible employees and individuals eligible for health care coverage under s. 40.516 for health care benefits shall be established by contract or rule except as otherwise specifically provided by this chapter.

SB881,5 Section 5 . 40.516 of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,5,13 40.516 Health care coverage for individuals who receive compensation for wrongful imprisonment. (1) Beginning on January 1, 2021, any individual who receives compensation under s. 775.05 after the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date], may elect coverage under any health care coverage plan offered under s. 40.51 (6) for a period equal to the time he or she was imprisoned, but not to exceed 7 years. An individual who is eligible to obtain health care coverage offered by his or her employer or by the employer of his or her spouse may not elect or continue coverage under this subsection.

SB881,5,20 (2) The individual and the state shall jointly pay the full premium cost of health care coverage and the cost of administering the benefits under sub. (1). The amount that the individual must pay in health insurance premiums shall equal the amount required to be paid by state employees, as determined by the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of administration under s. 40.05 (4) (ah). The remainder of the premium cost for health care coverage for these individuals shall be paid from the appropriation account under s. 20.515 (1) (ds).

SB881,6 Section 6 . 71.05 (6) (b) 54. of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,6,3 71.05 (6) (b) 54. Any amount received by an individual, or the individual's estate, from the claims board under s. 775.05 (4), from the legislature under the process described in s. 775.05 (4), from the state as a result of the state's payment of an individual's premium costs under s. 40.516 (2) to the extent that the amount is recognized by the individual as income, or from a financial assistance award granted under s. 808.085, in the taxable year that relates to the year in which the payment is received.

SB881,7 Section 7. 227.03 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB881,6,8 227.03 (5) This chapter does not apply to proceedings of the claims board, except as provided in ss. 775.05 (5), 775.06 (7) and 775.11 (2), and except that proceedings under s. 775.05 are subject to this chapter, unless otherwise provided in s. 775.05.

SB881,8 Section 8. 227.43 (1) (bw) of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,6,11 227.43 (1) (bw) Assign a hearing examiner to preside over each hearing conducted under s. 775.05.

SB881,9 Section 9 . 227.43 (3) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,6,17 227.43 (3) (f) The administrator of the division of hearings and appeals may set the fees to be charged for any services rendered to the claims board by a hearing examiner under this section. The fee shall cover the total cost of the services. In no case may a fee that is set under this paragraph be imposed on, or passed down to, a petitioner described under s. 775.05 (2) (a).

SB881,10 Section 10 . 301.051 of the statutes is created to read:

SB881,6,22 301.051 Wrongful imprisonment; transition plan. Not more than 5 days after a court issues an order under s. 808.085 (1) (a) for a plan requested by an inmate, the department shall create a transition to release plan for the inmate. The plan shall do all of the following:

SB881,7,2 (1) Provide the inmate with a written list of community resources available to the inmate upon his or her release from prison, including temporary housing and emergency shelters, food banks, education and job assistance, and health care services in the county into which the inmate will be released.

SB881,7,5 (2) Provide the inmate with an individual counseling session with a person trained by the department or the county into which the inmate will be released to assist inmates in the transition to release from prison.

SB881,7,8 (3) Schedule an appointment, set for not later than 2 weeks after the inmate's date of release, for the inmate to meet with a social worker or aid program administrator for the county into which the inmate will be released.

SB881,11 Section 11 . 775.05 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 775.05 (2) (a) and amended to read:

SB881,7,22 775.05 (2) (a) Any Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), any person who is imprisoned as the result of his or her conviction for a crime in any court of this state, of which crime the person claims to be innocent, and who is released from imprisonment for that crime whose conviction has been vacated and who has been subsequently acquitted, or whose conviction has been vacated and the charges have been dismissed, or who has received a pardon on the basis of innocence, any of which occurs after March 13, 1980, may petition the claims board for compensation for such imprisonment. Upon Within 5 days after receipt of the petition, the claims board department of administration shall transmit a copy thereof to the prosecutor who prosecuted the petitioner and the judge who sentenced the petitioner for the conviction which is the subject of the claim, or their successors in office, for the information of these persons.