AB 573 — Relating to: a law enforcement officer virtual behavioral health crisis care pilot program. (FE)

- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBa0706/1LRB-3939/1 SWB:cdcMJW&SWB:cjs ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 573 NovemberOctober 8,27, 2023 - OfferedIntroduced by RepresentativeRepresentatives D ONOVAN , ORN , ARMSTRONG , B EHNKE , RANDTJEN , DITTRICH, UCHOW , GREEN , ITCHENS , RUG , MAGNAFICI, M AXEY , MELOTIK , MICHALSKI, M URSAU , NEDWESKI , O RTIZV ELEZ, PLUMER , R ETTINGER, SCHMIDT, WICHGERS and M URPHY , cosponsored by Senators AMES and T OMCZYK .

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- 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-3939/1 MJW&SWB:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 573 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:

SECTION 1.Nonstatutory provisions.

(1) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER VIRTUAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS CARE PILOT PROGRAM.

(a) The department of health services shall establish a pilot program to implement virtual behavioral health crisis care services for use by county or municipal law enforcement agencies in the field to connect law enforcement officers who encounter persons in crisis to behavioral healthcare services.

(b) Within 90 days after the effective date of this paragraph, the department of health services shall obtain and review proposals using its request-for-proposals procedure to contract with one or more private entities to provide virtual behavioral health crisis care services, including related equipment and training, that provide law enforcement officerswith remote access via two-way audio/video communication to behavioral healthcare expertise and decision-making support.

The department shall enter a contract with a vendor as soon as is practicable after all proposals have been received.

(c) After the department of health services enters a contract under par.

(b), the department shall identify counties and municipalities to participate in the program under par.

(a) that will receive the services contracted for under par.

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(a) may be allocated to counties or municipalities with a population of more than 50,000, and no more than 10 percent of the program resources may be allocated to a single county or municipality.

(d) The department of health services shall collect all of the following information as of March 31, 2025, for the pilot program under par.

(a), and report it to the joint committee on finance by May 1, 2025:

1.

For each participating county or municipality, how much money was received under the pilot program and how much money was contributed by the county or municipality.

2.

Which counties and municipalities participated in the program.

3.

The number of law enforcement officers that were equipped with the services provided under the program.

4.

The number of incidents in which the services provided under the program were utilized.

5.

Of the incidents in which the services provided under the program were utilized, the number that were predicted to otherwise have resulted in an involuntary commitment.

6.

Of the incidents in which the services provided under the program were utilized, the number that ended with the person in crisis remaining in place rather than requiring some kind of transport.

7.