Grants for providing shelter for homeless individuals and families in the vicinity of the state capitol building and making an appropriation

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, the Department of Commerce (department) awards grants to agencies and shelter facilities that provide temporary shelter for homeless individuals and families. Grant proceeds may be used to supplement the operating budgets of agencies and shelter facilities that have, or anticipate, a need for additional funding because of the renovation or expansion of an existing shelter facility, the development of an existing building into a shelter facility, the expansion of shelter services for homeless persons, or an inability to obtain adequate funding for an existing level of services. Current law requires the department to allocate in each year at least $400,000 to eligible applicants located in Milwaukee County; at least $66,500 to eligible applicants located in Dane County; and at least $100,000 to eligible applicants not in Milwaukee County or Dane County.

This bill increases the general purpose revenuetax incremental appropriation that funds temporary shelter grants in both fiscal years of the 2009-11 fiscal biennium by $50,000. Under the bill, the department must allocate at least $116,500 in each year to eligible applicants in Dane County. Of that amount, the bill requires the department to allocate not less than $50,000 in each year to eligible applicants that provide temporary shelter for homeless individuals and families in the vicinity of the state capitol.

Who's behind it

6 representatives are its authors⁠. All 6 are Democrats.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From COMM