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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 233
May 2, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives SNYDER, NOVAK, ARMSTRONG, BRILL,
DITTRICH, FRANKLIN, GUNDRUM, MAXEY, MELOTIK, MURSAU, PIWOWARCZYK,
RIVERA-WAGNER, SPIROS, WICHGERS and STEFFEN, cosponsored by Senators
JAMES and HABUSH SINYKIN. Referred to Committee on Children and
Families.
AN ACT to amend 165.96 (intro.), (2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13); to
create 165.96 (16) and (17) of the statutes; relating to: grants to child
advocacy centers.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Justice must provide $17,000 in each
fiscal year to specified child advocacy centers for education, training, medical
advice, and quality assurance activities. This bill instead provides that DOJ must
award grants in each fiscal year to specified child advocacy centers to enhance the
multidisciplinary response to suspected child maltreatment. The bill adds two
centers as recipients, the Lakeshore Regional Child Advocacy Center in Sheboygan
County and Child Advocacy Centers of Wisconsin, and updates the names of the
centers that are designated recipients under current law.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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SECTION 1. 165.96 (intro.), (2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13) of the
statutes are amended to read:
165.96 Child advocacy grants. (intro.) Beginning in fiscal year 2011-2012,
from From the appropriation under s. 20.455 (5) (ke), the department of justice
shall in each fiscal year provide $17,000 to award grants to each of the following
child advocacy centers for education, training, medical advice, and quality
assurance activities to enhance the multidisciplinary response to suspected child
maltreatment:
(2) Child Protection Milwaukee Child Advocacy Center in Milwaukee County.
(4) Kenosha County Child Advocacy Center in Kenosha County.
(5) Fox Valley Child Advocacy Center in Winnebago Outagamie County.
(8) Child Advocacy Center of Northeastern North Central Wisconsin in
Marathon County.
(9) Chippewa County Valley Child Advocacy Center in Chippewa Eau Claire
County.
(10) A child advocacy center Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center
in Brown County.
(11) A child advocacy center Racine County Child Advocacy Center in Racine
County.
(12) A child advocacy center Walworth County Child Advocacy Center in
Walworth County.
(13) CHAT Room Green County Child Advocacy Center in Green County.
SECTION 2. 165.96 (16) and (17) of the statutes are created to read:
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165.96 (16) Lakeshore Regional Child Advocacy Center in Sheboygan County.
(17) Child Advocacy Centers of Wisconsin.
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