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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
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                  2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 249
    May 8, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives TITTL, CONLEY, C. ANDERSON, BALDEH,
        BEHNKE, BRANDTJEN, EMERSON, JOERS, MURSAU, OHNSTAD, ORTIZ-VELEZ,
        PALMERI, SCHMIDT, STUBBS, SUBECK and WICHGERS, cosponsored by Senators
        JACQUE and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and
        Long-Term Care.
1   AN ACT       to amend 49.148 (1m) (title) and 49.148 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes;
2        relating to: expanding Wisconsin Works eligibility for at-risk pregnancy.
                      Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
          Under current law, a person who is not a custodial parent of a dependent child
    may be eligible for Wisconsin Works benefits if the person is an unmarried woman
    who meets the other eligibility criteria and is in the third trimester of a pregnancy
    that is medically verified and is shown by medical documentation to be at risk and
    to render the woman unable to participate in the workforce.
          This bill extends the criteria for these benefits to any woman who is already the
    custodial parent of a dependent child and who is in any stage of a medically verified
    and documented at-risk pregnancy.
          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:
3        SECTION 1. 49.148 (1m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
4        49.148 (1m) (title) CUSTODIAL PARENT OF INFANT; UNMARRIED, PREGNANT WOMAN.
5        SECTION 2. 49.148 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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    ASSEMBLY BILL 249                                                        SECTION 2
1        49.148 (1m) (a) 2.     An unmarried A woman who meets the eligibility
2   requirements under s. 49.145 (2) and (3) or who would be eligible under s. 49.145
3   except that she is not a custodial parent of a dependent child and who is in the 3rd
4   trimester of a pregnancy that is medically verified and that is shown by medical
5   documentation to be at risk and to render the woman unable to participate in the
6   workforce.
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Statutes affected: 
Bill Text: 49.148(1m)(title), 49.148, 49.148(1m)(a)2