Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB344 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 344
5	5	June 30, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives N EDWESKI, ROZAR, ALLEN,
6	6	ARMSTRONG, BEHNKE, BODDEN, BRANDTJEN, DONOVAN, DUCHOW, EDMING,
7	7	GOEBEN, GREEN, GUNDRUM, GUSTAFSON, HURD, KRUG, MACCO, MAGNAFICI,
8	8	MAXEY, MOSES, MURPHY, MURSAU, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN, RETTINGER, SCHMIDT,
9	9	SCHRAA, STEFFEN, SUMMERFIELD, TITTL, TUSLER and WICHGERS, cosponsored by
10	10	Senators QUINN, BRADLEY, FEYEN, HUTTON, JACQUE, JAGLER, JAMES, KNODL,
11	11	NASS and TOMCZYK. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
12	12	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
13	13	AN ACT to amend 20.435 (1) (eg); and to create 253.02 (5) of the statutes;
14	14	relating to: grants to Choose Life Wisconsin and making an appropriation.
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award a grant to Choose
17	17	Life Wisconsin for that organization to provide grants to pregnancy resource centers.
18	18	Choose Life Wisconsin must report annually to DHS on the pregnancy resource
19	19	centers it has awarded a grant, and DHS must distribute this annual report to the
20	20	legislature.
21	21	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
22	22	an appendix to this bill.
23	23	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
24	24	enact as follows:
25	25	SECTION 1. 20.435 (1) (eg) of the statutes is amended to read:
26	26	20.435 (1) (eg) Pregnancy counseling. The amounts in the schedule for grants
27	27	for pregnancy counseling under s. 253.08 and for the grant under s. 253.02 (5).
28	28	SECTION 2. 253.02 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
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36	36	SECTION 2 ASSEMBLY BILL 344
37	37	253.02 (5) The department shall award a grant in an amount of $1,000,000 per
38	38	fiscal year to Choose Life Wisconsin, Inc., for Choose Life Wisconsin, Inc., to provide
39	39	grants in an amount of up to $50,000 each to pregnancy resource centers. Choose Life
40	40	Wisconsin shall report to the department annually on the pregnancy resource
41	41	centers that receive grants with moneys provided under this subsection. The
42	42	department shall distribute the annual report to the legislature in the manner
43	43	described under s. 13.172 (2).
44	44	SECTION 3.0Fiscal changes.
45	45	(1) In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department
46	46	of health services under s. 20.435 (1) (eg), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24
47	47	is increased by $1,000,000 to award the grant to Choose Life Wisconsin, Inc., under
48	48	s. 253.02 (5). In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the
49	49	department of health services under s. 20.435 (1) (eg), the dollar amount for fiscal
50	50	year 2024-25 is increased by $1,000,000 to award the grant to Choose Life
51	51	Wisconsin, Inc., under s. 253.02 (5).
52	52	SECTION 4.0Effective date.
53	53	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
54	54	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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