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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 973
January 30, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Novak
,
Doyle
,
Gundrum
,
Snyder
,
McCarville
,
Armstrong
,
Behnke
,
DeSmidt
,
Fitzgerald
,
Joers
,
Knodl
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
,
Ortiz-Velez
,
Roe
,
Sinicki
,
Subeck
and
Taylor
, cosponsored by Senator
James
. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
AB973,1,2
1
An Act
to repeal
20.435 (7) (f);
to create
20.435 (7) (f) of the statutes;
relating
2
to:
grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to 10 counties to fund an economic support specialist position in the aging and disability resource center (ADRC) that serves the county. DHS must give preference in awarding six of the grants to two rural, two suburban, and two urban counties. The bill provides $1,000,000 for the grants. If funding is available after DHS awards the grants to 10 counties, the bill allows DHS to award a grant to an 11th county. Within one year after receiving a grant, the bill requires grant recipients to submit a report to DHS and the legislature detailing the effectiveness of the grant.
ADRCs, referred to in the statutes as “resource centers,” provide information and services related to long-term care to the public.
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:
AB973,1
1
Section
1
.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
2
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
-
See PDF for table
AB973,2
8
Section
2
.
20.435 (7) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
AB973,2,11
9
20.435
(7)
(f)
Economic support specialist grants.
As a continuing
10
appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for grants to fund economic support
11
specialist positions under 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section
4
(
1
) (
b
) and (
c
).
AB973,3
12
Section
3
.
20.435 (7) (f) of the statutes, as created by 2025 Wisconsin Act ....
13
(this act), is repealed.
AB973,4
14
Section
4
. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB973,2,15
15
(
1
)
Economic support specialist grants.
AB973,2,17
16
(
a
)
In this subsection, “resource center” has the meaning given in s. 46.2805
17
(10).
AB973,2,23
18
(
b
)
From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (f), the department of health
19
services shall award grants to 10 counties to fund an economic support specialist
20
position in the resource center that serves the county. The department of health
21
services shall give the following preference in awarding 6 of the grants under this
22
paragraph, and the department of health services may award the remaining 4
23
grants as determined by the department of health services:
AB973,2,24
24
1
. One grant each to 2 rural counties.
AB973,3,1
1
2
. One grant each to 2 suburban counties.
AB973,3,2
2
3
. One grant each to 2 urban counties.
AB973,3,7
3
(
c
)
From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (f), if funding is available in
4
that appropriation after the department of health services awards the grants under
5
par. (
b
), the department of health services may award a grant to an 11th county to
6
fund an economic support specialist position in the resource center that serves the
7
county.
AB973,3,10
8
(
d
)
The department of health services may not award a grant under par. (
b
) or
9
(
c
) after the last day of the 12th month beginning after the effective date of this
10
paragraph.
AB973,3,16
11
(
e
)
Within one year after receiving a grant under par. (
b
) or (
c
), a grant
12
recipient shall submit to the department of health services and the appropriate
13
standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) a report that details the
14
effectiveness of the grant, including, since the receipt of the grant, the estimated
15
number of individuals served by the economic support specialist who was hired as a
16
result of the grant.
AB973,5
17
Section
5
. Effective dates.
This act takes effect on the day after
18
publication, except as follows:
AB973,3,19
19
(
1
)
The repeal of s. 20.435 (7) (f) takes effect on July 1, 2027.
AB973,3,20
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