Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 1090
5	5	March 18, 2024 - Introduced by Senators LARSON, CARPENTER and ROYS,
6	6	cosponsored by Representatives MADISON, MOORE OMOKUNDE, BALDEH,
7	7	CLANCY, DRAKE, JACOBSON, OHNSTAD, RATCLIFF, SINICKI, SNODGRASS, STUBBS
8	8	and SUBECK. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to renumber and amend 49.77 (1); and to create 49.77 (1) (a) and 49.77
11	11	(2r) of the statutes; relating to: increasing state supplemental payments based
12	12	on cost of living adjustments.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	Under current law, certain individuals who qualify to receive payments under
15	15	the federal Supplemental Security Income program are eligible to receive additional
16	16	payments under a supplemental payment program administered by the Department
17	17	of Health Services. This bill requires DHS to increase the payments to individuals
18	18	under the supplemental payment program based on the percentage change in the
19	19	consumer price index for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, as determined by
20	20	the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor between
21	21	December 31, 1994, and December 31, 2022, and annually thereafter based on the
22	22	percentage change in the same consumer price index between December 31 of the
23	23	preceding year and December 31 of the year before the preceding year.
24	24	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
25	25	an appendix to this bill.
26	26	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
27	27	enact as follows:
28	28	SECTION 1. 49.77 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 49.77 (1) (intro.) and
29	29	amended to read:
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36	36	SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 1090
37	37	49.77 (1) DEFINITION DEFINITIONS. (intro.) In this section “secretary":
38	38	(b) “Secretary” means the secretary of the U.S. department of health and
39	39	human services or the secretary of any other federal agency subsequently charged
40	40	with the administration of federal Title XVI.
41	41	SECTION 2. 49.77 (1) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
42	42	49.77 (1) (a) “Consumer price index” means the average of the consumer price
43	43	index for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, as determined by the bureau of
44	44	labor statistics of the U.S. department of labor.
45	45	SECTION 3. 49.77 (2r) of the statutes is created to read:
46	46	49.77 (2r) COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT. (a) On the effective date of this
47	47	paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], the department shall adjust the amount of
48	48	supplemental payments under this section by the percentage difference between the
49	49	consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on December 31, 1994, and the
50	50	consumer price index for the 12-month period ending on December 31, 2022.
51	51	(b) By no later than July 1 of each year, beginning on July 1, 2024, the
52	52	department shall adjust the amount of supplemental payments under this section
53	53	by the percentage difference between the consumer price index for the 12-month
54	54	period ending on December 31 of the preceding year and the consumer price index
55	55	for the 12-month period ending on December 31 of the year before the preceding year.
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