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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 573

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

Health services department of — Health Mental health Police Reports Respite care

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill directs the Department of Health Services to 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. Under the bill,

DHS must contract with a private entity to provide virtual behavioral health crisis

care services, including related equipment and training, that provide law

enforcement officers with remote access via two-way audio/video communication to

behavioral healthcare expertise and decision-making support. Then DHS must

identify counties and municipalities to participate in the pilot program to use the

contracted services.

Under the bill, to be eligible to participate in the pilot program a county or

municipality must pay 30 percent of the cost for the equipment and services

contracted for that county or municipality. No more than 50 percent of program

resources may be allocated to counties or municipalities with a population of more

than 50,000, and no more than 10 percent of program resources may be allocated to

a single county or municipality.

No later than May 1, 2025, DHS must collect and report information to the Joint

Committee on Finance on the program's costs and effectiveness.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Duchow (R) , Green (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Magnafici (R) , Maxey (R) , Melotik (R) , Michalski (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Nedweski (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Plumer (R) , Rettinger (R) , Schmidt (R) , Wichgers (R)

8 cosponsors

Billings, Gustafson and O'Connor , Cabrera and Subeck , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Jacobson (D) , James (R) , Marklein (R) , Tomczyk (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Nov 9, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Nov 9, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Dec 14, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 12, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Donovan, Born, Armstrong, Behnke, Brandtjen, Dittrich, Duchow, Green, Kitchens, Krug, Magnafici, Maxey, Melotik, Michalski, Mursau, Nedweski, Ortiz-Velez, Plumer, Rettinger, Schmidt, Wichgers and Murphy; cosponsored by Senators James and Tomczyk

  2. Oct 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention

  3. Oct 31, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Marklein added as a cosponsor

  4. Nov 1, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Donovan

  6. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-14-2023 by Committee on Rules

  7. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  9. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Prevention, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  10. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  12. Nov 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Billings, Gustafson and O'Connor added as coauthors

  13. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Cabrera and Subeck added as coauthors

  19. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Nov 15, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  21. Nov 21, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families

  22. Dec 13, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  23. Dec 13, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  24. Dec 14, 2023 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  25. Dec 14, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  26. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  27. Jan 12, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  28. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor

  29. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  30. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  31. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  32. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  33. Jan 16, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  34. Jan 16, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  35. Jan 17, 2024 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 1-17-2024

  36. Mar 21, 2024 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-21-2024

  37. Mar 28, 2024 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-27-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 219

  38. Mar 28, 2024 · Assembly

    Published 3-28-2024

  39. Apr 10, 2024 · Assembly

    Senator Hesselbein added as a cosponsor