| 1 | 1 | | 2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE |
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| 2 | 2 | | LRB-2368/1 |
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| 3 | 3 | | KMS:skw |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 176 |
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| 5 | 5 | | April 15, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives KAUFERT, FRANKLIN, BARE, |
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| 6 | 6 | | BEHNKE, DONOVAN, GUNDRUM, JOERS, KNODL, KREIBICH, MURSAU, |
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| 7 | 7 | | O'CONNOR, PALMERI, SNYDER, STUBBS, SUBECK, TENORIO, MADISON, CLANCY |
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| 8 | 8 | | and MELOTIK, cosponsored by Senators CABRAL-GUEVARA, TESTIN, DASSLER- |
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| 9 | 9 | | ALFHEIM, JAMES, TOMCZYK, WIRCH, DRAKE, RATCLIFF and SPREITZER. |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care. |
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| 12 | 12 | | ***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*** |
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| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to repeal 46.87 (5m); to amend 46.87 (5) (a) 3. and 46.87 (5) (b) of the |
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| 14 | 14 | | statutes; relating to: financial eligibility for the Alzheimer[s family and |
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| 15 | 15 | | caregiver support program. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau |
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| 17 | 17 | | Under current law, the Department of Health Services allocates funds to local |
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| 18 | 18 | | agencies to assist eligible families with obtaining goods and services related to the |
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| 19 | 19 | | care of a person with Alzheimer[s disease or another irreversible dementia. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Currently, a person is financially eligible for the program if the joint income of the |
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| 21 | 21 | | person with irreversible dementia and that person[s spouse, if any, is $48,000 per |
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| 22 | 22 | | year or less. This bill repeals the financial eligibility requirement. |
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| 23 | 23 | | For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as |
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| 24 | 24 | | an appendix to this bill. |
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| 25 | 25 | | The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do |
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| 26 | 26 | | enact as follows: |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 1. 46.87 (5) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read: |
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| 28 | 28 | | 46.87 (5) (a) 3. The household meets financial eligibility requirements |
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| 33 | 33 | | 5 2025 - 2026 Legislature |
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| 34 | 34 | | ASSEMBLY BILL 176 |
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| 35 | 35 | | - 2 - LRB-2368/1 |
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| 36 | 36 | | KMS:skw |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | specified in sub. (5m), and persons Persons in the household are ineligible for the |
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| 39 | 39 | | family care benefit under s. 46.286 in a county in which a care management |
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| 40 | 40 | | organization under s. 46.284 operates. |
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| 41 | 41 | | SECTION 2. 46.87 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read: |
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| 42 | 42 | | 46.87 (5) (b) Provide or contract for the provision of services and goods or |
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| 43 | 43 | | make payments for services to a person with Alzheimer[s disease living in a |
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| 44 | 44 | | residential facility in the county or in a residential facility associated with the tribe |
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| 45 | 45 | | or band who meets financial eligibility requirements specified in sub. (5m) and is |
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| 46 | 46 | | ineligible for the family care benefit under s. 46.286 in a county in which a care |
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| 47 | 47 | | management organization under s. 46.284 operates. |
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| 48 | 48 | | SECTION 3. 46.87 (5m) of the statutes is repealed. |
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