Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 416 Date of publication*: March 23, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 203
AN ACT to amend 45.82 (2) of the statutes; relating to: grants to counties for veterans services.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 45.82 (2) of the statutes, as affected by
2023 Wisconsin Act 19, is amended to read:
45.82 (2) The department of veterans affairs shall
award a grant annually to a county that meets the stan-
dards developed under this section if the county execu-
tive, administrator, or administrative coordinator certi-
fies to the department that it employs a county veterans
service officer who, if chosen after April 15, 2015, is cho-
sen from a list of candidates who have taken a civil ser-
vice examination for the position of county veterans ser-
vice officer developed and administered by the bureau of
merit recruitment and selection in the department of
administration, or is appointed under a civil service com-
petitive examination procedure under s. 59.52 (8) or ch.
63 elected or appointed under s. 45.80 (1). A grant for
$11,688 shall be awarded for a county with a population
of less than 20,000, a grant for $13,750 shall be awarded
for a county with a population of 20,000 to 45,499, a grant
for $15,813 shall be awarded for a county with a popula-
tion of 45,500 to 74,999, and a grant for $17,875 shall be
awarded for a county with a population of 75,000 or
more. The department of veterans affairs shall use the
most recent Wisconsin official population estimates pre-
pared by the demographic services center when making
grants under this subsection.
* 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.”