2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 355
July 17, 2023 - Introduced by Representative SORTWELL, cosponsored by Senator
JAMES. Referred to Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Prevention.
1 AN ACT to create 20.435 (5) (eh) of the statutes; relating to: grants to prevent
2 suicide by firearm and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates an appropriation for the Department of Health Services to
award grants to prevent suicide by firearm.
For further information see the state 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. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
4 the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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ASSEMBLY BILL 355 SECTION 1
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1 20.435 Health services, department of
2 (5) MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
3 (eh) Grants to prevent suicide by
4 firearm GPR B 75,000 75,000
5 SECTION 2. 20.435 (5) (eh) of the statutes is created to read:
6 20.435 (5) (eh) Grants to prevent suicide by firearm. Biennially, the amounts
7 in the schedule for grants related to preventing suicide by firearm under s. 51.73.
8 SECTION 3.0Effective date.
9 (1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
10 publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
11 (END)