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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1182
March 22, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives BARE, CONLEY, EMERSON, JOERS,
RATCLIFF, SINICKI, SUBECK and PALMERI, cosponsored by Senators HESSELBEIN,
AGARD and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and
Long-Term Care.
AN ACT to create 20.435 (1) (fo) and 146.621 of the statutes; relating to: grants
to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care
provider workforce and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to each
county to match any investments made by the county in the previous fiscal year in
the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care and prevention, or wellness
of the county's health care, public health, child care, long-term care, and other care
provider workforce. Under the bill, grants may not exceed an amount equal to $1.11
multiplied by the county's population.
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:
SECTION 1. 20.435 (1) (fo) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (1) (fo) Workforce investment grants. A sum sufficient for grants to
counties for workforce investment under s. 146.621.
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SECTION 2 ASSEMBLY BILL 1182
SECTION 2. 146.621 of the statutes is created to read:
146.621 Workforce investment grants. Each fiscal year, the department
shall provide grants to each county to match any investments made by the county
in the previous fiscal year in the recruitment, retention, mental health, trauma care
and prevention, or wellness of the county's health care, public health, child care,
long-term care, and other care provider workforce. No grant awarded to a county
under this section in any fiscal year may exceed an amount equal to $1.11 multiplied
by the total number of persons residing in the county, as last determined by the
department of administration under s. 16.96.
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