Chapter 46, SOCIAL SERVICES

46.245 Information for certain pregnant women. Upon request, a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 shall distribute the materials described under s. 253.10 (3) (d), as prepared and distributed by the department. A physician who intends to perform or induce an aborti…

46.248 Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (dx), the department shall distribute moneys to Reach Out and Read, Inc., for the early literacy program known as Reach Out and Read Wisconsin. History: 2021 a. 58.

46.269 Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs. To the extent approved by the federal government, the department or its designee shall exclude any assets accumulated in a person’s independence account, as defined in s. 49.472 (1) (c), and any income or asset…

46.271 Long-term support pilot projects. (1) (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (bd), the department shall award $100,000 in each fiscal year to applying county departments under s. 46.215, 46.22, 46.23, 51.42 or 51.437 or to an aging unit under the conditions specifi…

46.272 Children’s community options program. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Child” means a person under 22 years of age who is not eligible to receive services in or on a waiting list for an adult longterm care program. (b) “Disability” means a severe physical, developmen…

46.275 Community integration program for residents of state centers. (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The intent of the program under this section is to relocate persons from the state centers for the developmentally disabled into appropriate community settings with the assistance of home…

46.277 Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care. (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The intent of the program under this section is to provide home or community-based care to serve in a noninstitutional community setting a person who meets e…

46.278 Community integration program and brain injury waiver program for persons with developmental disabilities. (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT. The intent of the programs under this section is to provide home or community-based care to serve in a noninstitutional community setting a pe…

46.2785 Community Opportunities and Recovery Program. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Nursing facility” has the meaning given in 42 USC 1396r (a). (b) “Serious mental illness” has the meaning given in 42 CFR 483.102 (b) (1). (c) “Waiver program” means the Community Opportu…

46.279 Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Developmental disability” has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (5) (a). (b) “Intermediate facility” has the meaning given for an intermediate care facility…

46.28 Revenue bonding for residential facilities. (1) In this section: (a) “Authority” means the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority created under ch. 234. (am) “Child with long-term care needs” means any of the following: 1. A juvenile adjudged delinquent for wh…

46.2804 Client management of managed care longterm care benefit. Under a managed care program for provision of long-term care services, the care manager shall provide, within guidelines established by the department, a mechanism by which an enrollee, beneficiary, or recipient of …

46.2805 Definitions; long-term care. In ss. 46.2805 to 46.2895: (1) “Care management organization” means an entity that is certified as meeting the requirements for a care management organization under s. 46.284 (3) and that has a contract under s. 46.284 (2). “Care management or…

46.281 Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care. (1d) WAIVER REQUEST. The department shall request from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services any waivers of federal medicaid laws necessary to permit the use of fed…

46.283 Resource centers. (1) APPLICATION FOR CONTRACT. (a) A county board of supervisors and, in a county with a county executive or a county administrator, the county executive or county administrator, may decide all of the following: 1. Whether to authorize one or more county d…

46.284 Care management organizations. 46.284(1)(1) Application for contract. 46.284(1)(a)(a) A county board of supervisors and, in a county with a county executive or a county administrator, the county executive or county administrator, may decide all of the following: 46.284(1)(…

46.285 Operation of resource center and care management organization. In order to meet federal requirements and assure federal financial participation in funding of the family care benefit, a county, a tribe or band, a long-term care district or an organization, including a priva…

46.286 Family care benefit. (1) ELIGIBILITY. A person is eligible for, but not necessarily entitled to, the family care benefit if the person is at least 18 years of age; has a physical disability, as defined in s. 15.197 (4) (a) 2., or a developmental disability, as defined in s…

46.287 Hearings. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “client” means a person applying for eligibility for the family care benefit, an eligible person or an enrollee. (2) HEARING. (a) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., a client may contest any of the following applicable matters by f…

46.288 Rule-making. The department shall promulgate as rules all of the following: (1) Standards for performance by resource centers and for certification of care management organizations, including requirements for maintaining quality assurance and quality improvement. (2) Crite…

46.2895 Long-term care district. (1) CREATION. (a) A county, a tribe or band, or any combination of counties or tribes or bands, may create a special purpose district that is termed a “long-term care district”, that is a local unit of government, that is separate and distinct fro…

46.2896 Counting promissory notes as assets. (1) In this section: (a) “Long-term care program” means the long-term care program under s. 46.275, 46.277, 46.278, or 46.2785; the family care program providing the benefit under s. 46.286; the Family Care Partnership program; or the …

46.2897 Self-directed services option. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “self-directed services option” means the program that is operated under a waiver from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services under 42 USC 1396n (c) in which an enrolled individu…

46.2898 Employment of individuals with disabilities; long-term care programs. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Board” means the board for people with developmental disabilities. (b) “Coaching” means providing specific, targeted supports to a business, school district, or vo…

46.2899 Services for the developmentally disabled who receive post-secondary education. (1) DEFINITION. In this section, “self-directed services option” means a program known as Include, Respect, I Self-direct or IRIS operated by the department under a waiver from the secretary o…

46.29 Council on physical disabilities. (1) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (1) (a), the department shall distribute at least $16,100 in each fiscal year for operation of the council on physical disabilities. The council on physical disabilities shall do all of the…

46.293 Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired. The department shall provide rehabilitation teaching services for persons who are blind or visually impaired including elderly persons and young persons and their parents or guardians, regardless of their eligibilit…

46.295 Interpreters for the hearing-impaired. (1) The department may, on the request of any hearing-impaired person, city, village, town, or county or private agency, provide funds from the appropriation accounts under s. 20.435 (1) (da) and (hs) to reimburse interpreters for hea…

46.297 Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired. (1) ASSISTANCE. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (da), the department shall, subject to the availability of funds, provide assistance to hearing-impaired persons to secure telecommunication devices capable of servin…

46.298 Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired. Upon the request of a person who is certified as hearing impaired by the department, by a physician, by a hearing instrument specialist licensed under subch. I of ch. 459, or by an audiologist who is licensed under subch. II of ch.…

46.33 Employee counseling referral programs. The department may provide technical assistance to municipalities, counties, school districts and private employers for referral programs for employee counseling. The department may charge fees to cover the costs of these services. His…

46.34 Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants. The department may assist the department of natural resources in the development of emission standards for hazardous air contaminants under s. 285.27 (2) (b). History: 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 227.

46.37 Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County. The department, as a member of the tri-institutional Winnebago Mental Health Institute, Winnebago County Asylum, and Sunny View Sanatorium sewer agreement in Winnebago County, is authorized to furnish and charge for wa…

46.40 Community aids funding. (1) DISTRIBUTION LIMITS. (a) Within the limits of available federal funds and of the appropriations under s. 20.435 (7) (b) and (o), the department shall distribute funds for community social, mental health, developmental disabilities, and alcohol an…

46.45 Carry-over of community aids funds. Funds allocated by the department under ss. 46.495 (1) (d), 46.87 (3) (c) 4. and (4) and 51.423 (2) but not spent or encumbered by counties, governing bodies of federally recognized American Indian tribes or private nonprofit organization…

46.47 Grants for nonnarcotic drug treatment in county jails. (1) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (5) (bd), the department shall award grants to provide nonnarcotic drug treatment as provided in sub. (2) to a county or federally recognized American Indian tribe or b…

46.48 Grants for community programs. (1) GENERAL. From the appropriation accounts under s. 20.435 (1) (b), (5) (bc), and (7) (bc), the department shall award grants for community programs as provided in this section. (4) TREATMENT ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM. For grants under s. 46.65, t…

46.482 Coordination of care in substance use overdose. (1) In this section: (a) “Overdose treatment provider” means an entity, including an emergency department of a hospital, that offers treatment or other services to individuals in response to or following a substance use overd…

46.485 Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children. (1) In this section: (a) “Inpatient facility” has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (10). (b) “Limited service health organization” has the meaning given in s. 609.01 (3). (c) “Serious emotional disturbance” h…

46.49 Allocation of federal funds for community aids. (1) If the department receives unanticipated federal community mental health services block grant funds under 42 USC 300x to 300x-9 or federal prevention and treatment of substance abuse block grant funds under 42 USC 300x-21 …

46.495 Distribution of community aids funds to counties. (1) (am) The department shall reimburse each county from the appropriations under s. 20.435 (7) (b) and (o) for social services as approved by the department under ss. 46.215 (1), (2) (c) 1., and (3) and 46.22 (1) (b) 1. d.…

46.50 State mental health authority. In order to promote coordination and efficient development of mental health services by the state and by municipalities in the state, the department is declared to be the state mental health authority of Wisconsin and as such is authorized to …

46.52 Systems change grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (md), the department shall distribute funds to each grant recipient under this section so as to permit initial phasing in of recovery-oriented system changes, prevention and early intervention strategies, and…

46.53 Mental health treatment provider training. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (md), the department may not distribute more than $182,000 in each fiscal year to provide training for mental health treatment professionals on new mental health treatment approaches in wo…

46.533 Suicide and crisis lifeline; grants. (1) In this section, “national crisis hotline” means the telephone or text access number “988,” or its successor, that is maintained under the federally administered program under 42 USC 290bb-36c. (2) The department shall award grants …

46.535 Crisis intervention training grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (cd), the department shall award grants in the total amount of $1,000,000 in each fiscal biennium for mental health crisis intervention team training for law enforcement agencies, as described …

46.536 Crisis program enhancement grants. (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (cf), the department shall award grants in the total amount of $250,000 in each fiscal biennium to counties or regions comprised of multiple counties to establish or enhance crisis programs t…

46.537 Sharing minors’ safety plans. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section: (a) “Facilitator” means an individual who assists in the creation of a safety plan. (b) “Safety plan” means an individual’s written document, created in advance of a crisis, that provides guidance on how to he…

46.54 Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (md), the department shall distribute $874,000 in each fiscal year to increase support for mental health family support projects, employment projects operated by consumers of…

46.545 Individual placement and support. (1) (a) The department shall create all of the following regional centers for individual placement and support for employment of individuals experiencing mental illness. 1. A northwestern Wisconsin region. 2. A south-central Wisconsin regi…