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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 776
December 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Tenorio
,
Sinicki
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Miresse
,
Joers
,
Subeck
,
Stubbs
,
Udell
,
Roe
,
McCarville
,
Snodgrass
,
Hong
,
Bare
,
Arney
,
Neubauer
and
Stroud
, cosponsored by Senators
Hesselbein
,
Habush Sinykin
,
Drake
,
Ratcliff
,
Roys
,
L. Johnson
,
Wirch
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Smith
,
Carpenter
,
Larson
and
Spreitzer
. Referred to Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs.
AB776,1,2
1
An Act
to create
20.485 (2) (qw) and 45.49 of the statutes;
relating to:
2
veterans mental health services and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to promote and assist veterans’ access to, and provide grants to organizations that provide to veterans, community-based and emergency crisis mental health services. The bill provides to DVA the authority to promulgate emergency rules to administer the requirements of the bill.
For further information see the state and local 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:
AB776,1
3
Section
1
.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
4
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
-
See PDF for table
AB776,2
4
Section
2
.
20.485 (2) (qw) of the statutes is created to read:
AB776,2,7
5
20.485
(2)
(qw)
Veterans mental health services.
Biennially, the amounts in
6
the schedule for the promotion and assistance of access to, and grants for, veterans’
7
mental health services under s. 45.49.
AB776,3
8
Section
3
.
45.49 of the statutes is created to read:
AB776,2,11
9
45.49
Veterans mental health services.
(1)
The department shall
10
promote and assist veterans’ access to, and provide grants to organizations that
11
provide to veterans, community-based and emergency crisis mental health services.
AB776,2,17
12
(2)
The department may promulgate emergency rules under s. 227.24 as
13
necessary to administer this section. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (1) (a) and (3), the
14
department is not required to provide evidence that promulgating a rule under this
15
subsection as an emergency rule is necessary for the preservation of the public
16
peace, health, safety, or welfare and is not required to provide a finding of
17
emergency for a rule promulgated under this subsection.
AB776,2,18
18
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