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AB233 • 2025
grants to child advocacy centers
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grants to child advocacy centers Status: A - Tabled
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Representatives O'Connor , Sinicki , Ortiz-Velez and Stubbs added as coauthors
Laid on the table
Representatives Fitzgerald and McCarville added as coauthors
Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025
Senators Spreitzer and Ratcliff added as cosponsors
Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor
Fiscal estimate received
Representative Joers added as a coauthor
Report passage recommended by Committee on Children and Families , Ayes 9, Noes 0
Referred to committee on Rules
Executive action taken
Representatives Udell , Subeck , Miresse and J. Jacobson added as coauthors
Representatives Bare and Spaude added as coauthors
Representatives DeSmidt , Emerson and Snodgrass added as coauthors
Public hearing held
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
Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families
grants to child advocacy centers Status: A - Tabled
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Referred to Committee on Children and Families. AB233,1,3 1 An Act to amend 165.96 (intro.), (2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13); to 2 create 165.96 (16) and (17) of the statutes; relating to: grants to child 3 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: AB233,1 1 Section 1 . 165.96 (intro.), (2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (13) of the 2 statutes are amended to read: AB233,2,8 3 165.96 Child advocacy grants. (intro.) Beginning in fiscal year 2011-2012, 4 from From the appropriation under s. 20.455 (5) (ke), the department of justice 5 shall in each fiscal year provide $17,000 to award grants to each of the following 6 child advocacy centers for education, training, medical advice, and quality 7 assurance activities to enhance the multidisciplinary response to suspected child 8 maltreatment : AB233,2,9 9 (2) Child Protection Milwaukee Child Advocacy Center in Milwaukee County. AB233,2,10 10 (4) Kenosha County Child Advocacy Center in Kenosha County. AB233,2,11 11 (5) Fox Valley Child Advocacy Center in Winnebago Outagamie County. AB233,2,13 12 (8) Child Advocacy Center of Northeastern North Central Wisconsin in 13 Marathon County. AB233,2,15 14 (9) Chippewa County Valley Child Advocacy Center in Chippewa Eau Claire 15 County. AB233,2,17 16 (10) A child advocacy center Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center 17 in Brown County. AB233,2,19 18 (11) A child advocacy center Racine County Child Advocacy Center in Racine 19 County. AB233,2,21 20 (12) A child advocacy center Walworth County Child Advocacy Center in 21 Walworth County. AB233,2,22 22 (13) CHAT Room Green County Child Advocacy Center in Green County. AB233,2 23 Section 2 . 165.96 (16) and (17) of the statutes are created to read: AB233,3,1 1 165.96 (16) Lakeshore Regional Child Advocacy Center in Sheboygan County. AB233,3,2 2 (17) Child Advocacy Centers of Wisconsin. 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