Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB610 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 610
5	5	November 7, 2023 - Introduced by Senators JAMES, TOMCZYK and MARKLEIN,
6	6	cosponsored by Representatives DONOVAN, BORN, ARMSTRONG, BEHNKE,
7	7	BRANDTJEN, DITTRICH, DUCHOW, GREEN, KITCHENS, KRUG, MAGNAFICI, MAXEY,
8	8	MELOTIK, MICHALSKI, MURSAU, NEDWESKI, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PLUMER, RETTINGER,
9	9	SCHMIDT, WICHGERS and MURPHY. Referred to Committee on Mental Health,
10	10	Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT relating to: a law enforcement officer virtual behavioral health crisis
13	13	care pilot program.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	This bill directs the Department of Health Services to establish a pilot program
16	16	to implement virtual behavioral health crisis care services for use by county or
17	17	municipal law enforcement agencies in the field to connect law enforcement officers
18	18	who encounter persons in crisis to behavioral healthcare services. Under the bill,
19	19	DHS must contract with a private entity to provide virtual behavioral health crisis
20	20	care services, including related equipment and training, that provide law
21	21	enforcement officers with remote access via two-way audio/video communication to
22	22	behavioral healthcare expertise and decision-making support. Then DHS must
23	23	identify counties and municipalities to participate in the pilot program to use the
24	24	contracted services.
25	25	Under the bill, to be eligible to participate in the pilot program a county or
26	26	municipality must pay 30 percent of the cost for the equipment and services
27	27	contracted for that county or municipality. No more than 50 percent of program
28	28	resources may be allocated to counties or municipalities with a population of more
29	29	than 50,000, and no more than 10 percent of program resources may be allocated to
30	30	a single county or municipality.
31	31	No later than May 1, 2025, DHS must collect and report information to the Joint
32	32	Committee on Finance on the program's costs and effectiveness.
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37	37	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
38	38	printed as an appendix to this bill.
39	39	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
40	40	enact as follows:
41	41	SECTION 1.0Nonstatutory provisions.
42	42	(1) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER VIRTUAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS CARE PILOT
43	43	PROGRAM.
44	44	(a) The department of health services shall establish a pilot program to
45	45	implement virtual behavioral health crisis care services for use by county or
46	46	municipal law enforcement agencies in the field to connect law enforcement officers
47	47	who encounter persons in crisis to behavioral healthcare services.
48	48	(b) Within 90 days after the effective date of this paragraph, the department
49	49	of health services shall obtain and review proposals using its request-for-proposals
50	50	procedure to contract with one or more private entities to provide virtual behavioral
51	51	health crisis care services, including related equipment and training, that provide
52	52	law enforcement officers with remote access via two-way audio/video
53	53	communication to behavioral healthcare expertise and decision-making support.
54	54	The department shall enter a contract with a vendor as soon as is practicable after
55	55	all proposals have been received.
56	56	(c) After the department of health services enters a contract under par. (b), the
57	57	department shall identify counties and municipalities to participate in the program
58	58	under par. (a) that will receive the services contracted for under par. (b). To be eligible
59	59	to participate in the pilot program under par. (a), a county or municipality must pay
60	60	30 percent of the cost for the services contracted for under par. (b) for that county or
61	61	municipality. No more than 50 percent of the program resources for the program
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87	87	under par. (a) may be allocated to counties or municipalities with a population of
88	88	more than 50,000, and no more than 10 percent of the program resources may be
89	89	allocated to a single county or municipality.
90	90	(d) The department of health services shall collect all of the following
91	91	information as of March 31, 2025, for the pilot program under par. (a), and report it
92	92	to the joint committee on finance by May 1, 2025:
93	93	1. For each participating county or municipality, how much money was received
94	94	under the pilot program and how much money was contributed by the county or
95	95	municipality.
96	96	2. Which counties and municipalities participated in the program.
97	97	3. The number of law enforcement officers that were equipped with the services
98	98	provided under the program.
99	99	4. The number of incidents in which the services provided under the program
100	100	were utilized.
101	101	5. Of the incidents in which the services provided under the program were
102	102	utilized, the number that were predicted to otherwise have resulted in an
103	103	involuntary commitment.
104	104	6. Of the incidents in which the services provided under the program were
105	105	utilized, the number that ended with the person in crisis remaining in place rather
106	106	than requiring some kind of transport.
107	107	7. An estimate of how many working hours were saved by utilizing the services
108	108	provided under the program.
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