SB 1014 — Relating to: funding for hospital emergency department services. (FE)

-Date 2024of LEGISLATUREenactment: LRB-5856/1 SWB:cjs/cdc/skw SENATE BILL 1014 February 9, 2024 - Introduced by Senators J AMES and Q UINN , cosponsored by Representatives S UMMERFIELD , H URD , M OSES, P ETRYK, P RONSCHINSKE , A RMSTRONG and ROZAR.

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WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT relating to:

fundinggrants for hospital emergency department services.

AnalysisThe bypeople theof Legislative Reference Bureau This bill specifies that the Jointstate Committeeof onWisconsin, Financerepresented may provide up to $15,000,000 in funding in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, from the JCF supplemental appropriation, for grants to fund health systems that commit to providing hospital emergency department services in Chippewa Countysenate or Eau Claire County, and that,assembly, indo addition,enact agreeas tofollows: use any grant funds for capital expenditures to aid in providing hospital emergency department services in Chippewa County or Eau Claire County.

UnderCounty theor bill,Eau theClaire Department of Health Services may submit a request to JCF for this funding with a plan that identifies each health system requesting funding, describes the types of expenditures for which the requested funding would be used, and prioritizes grant awards to support hospital emergency department services in Chippewa County.

The(b) billIn providesawarding that if JCF determines that the requirements set forth in the bill are satisfied, JCF may approve the plan and request for funding, as proposed or as modified, and may provide funding, not exceeding a total of $15,000,000, to DHS to provide grants tounder healthpar. systems as provided in the approved plan.

The(a), bill requires a report to the legislature that includes the amount of funding received, a detailed description of all expenditures for which the funding was used, and the impact of the funding on the hospital emergency department servicesS ofECTION the1.Nonstatutory healthprovisions. systems that received a grant.

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TheSERVICES. people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION(c) 10NonstatutoryNot provisions.later than March 1, 2025, a health system that (a) The department of health services shall, during is a recipient of a grant under this subsection shall report to the department of health services the amount of fund- the 2023−25 fiscal biennium, in a total amount not to ing received, a detailed description of all capital expendi- exceed $15,000,000, award grants to fund one or more tures for which the funding was used, and the impact of health systems that apply for a grant and meet all of the the funding on the health system’s hospital emergency following requirements:

(1) GRANTS FOR HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SERVICES.

(a) The department of health services may submit to the joint committee on finance a request for funding in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, in a total amount not exceeding $15,000,000, to award grants to fund one or more health systems that apply for a grant and meet all of the following requirements:

The health system commits to providing hospital emergency department servicesservices. in Chippewa County or Eau Claire County.

2.Not later than June 1, 2025, the department of health services shall submit to the chief emergency department services in Chippewa County or clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to Eau Claire County.

Thethe healthappropriate systemstanding agreescommittees to use any grant moneys received to fund capital expenditures to aid in providingthe hospitalmanner emergencyset department2. services in Chippewa County or Eau Claire County.

(b) The department of health servicessystem shallagrees includeto inuse theany requestgrant formoneys fundingforth under par.s.

(a)13.172 (3) a planreport thatsummarizing identifiesthis eachinfor- healthreceived systemto thatfund requests funding, describes the types of capital expenditures forto whichaid thein requestedproviding fundingmation wouldreceived befrom used,the and prioritizes grant awardsrecipients. to support hospital emergency department services in Chippewa County.

(c)* IfSection the991.11ISCONSISTATUTES: joint committee on finance determines that the requirements under pars.

(a)Effective anddate (b)of areacts. satisfied, the joint committee on finance may approve the plan and request for funding, as proposed or as modified.

(d)“Every Uponact approvaland underevery par.portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”

(c), the joint committee on finance may supplement the appropriation to the department of health services under s.

20.435 LRB-5856/1 - 2024 Legislature - 3 - SWB:cjs/cdc/skw SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 1014 (1) (bd) from the appropriation under s.

20.865 (4) (a), in an amount determined by the joint committee on finance, but not exceeding a total of $15,000,000, to provide grants to health systems as provided in the approved plan.

(e) Not later than March 1, 2025, a health system that is a recipient of a grant under this subsection shall report to the department of health services the amount of funding received, a detailed description of all capital expenditures for which the funding was used, and the impact of the funding on the health system's hospital emergency department services.

Not later than June 1, 2025, the department of health services shall submit to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees in the manner set forth under s.

13.172 (3) a report summarizing this information received from the grant recipients.

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