Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 1014 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT relating to: grants for hospital emergency department services.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) GRANTS FOR HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
SERVICES.
(a) The department of health services shall, during
the 2023−25 fiscal biennium, in a total amount not to
exceed $15,000,000, award grants to fund one or more
health systems that apply for a grant and meet all of the
following requirements:
1. The health system commits to providing hospital
emergency department services in Chippewa County or
Eau Claire County.
2. The health system agrees to use any grant moneys
received to fund capital expenditures to aid in providing
hospital emergency department services in Chippewa
County or Eau Claire County.
(b) In awarding grants under par. (a), the department
shall prioritize grant awards to support hospital emer-
gency department services in Chippewa County.
(c) Not later than March 1, 2025, a health system that
is a recipient of a grant under this subsection shall report
to the department of health services the amount of fund-
ing received, a detailed description of all capital expendi-
tures for which the funding was used, and the impact of
the funding on the health system’s hospital emergency
department services. Not later than June 1, 2025, the
department of health services shall submit to the chief
clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to
the appropriate standing committees in the manner set
forth under s. 13.172 (3) a report summarizing this infor-
mation received from the grant recipients.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”