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Updates on WI State Budget Impact on Women and Girls Website

4/27/2015

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Now that the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) is beginning to vote on specific sections of the 2015-2017 proposed state budget, we will start providing more frequent updates on the the Wisconsin Budget Impact on Wisconsin Women and Girls Blog.  The JFC held its first votes on the budget on April 15 and has conducted a total of three executive sessions on different portions of the budget.  As of now, the JFC has not voted on many sections of the department budgets that we are following closely on this website.

However, we know that the JFC will likely start conducting hearings on many of the departmental budgets that affect the issues we follow closely on this site.  As a result, we are updating our different issue pages with more thorough information regarding each program.  The information contained on each issue page will more closely resemble the format of previous Wisconsin State Budget Impact on Women and Girls reports (see here for the 2013-2015 report on the Governor's proposed budget).  These new issue sections will contain much of the same existing information that was already on each page, but will now also include information about how previous budgets affected each issue, more complete information about the substance of the Governor's proposals how the proposals will affect Wisconsin's Women and Girls, and more interactive graphics.  For a good example of what the new sections will look like, take a look at the updated BadgerCare section.

When the JFC makes changes to any of the Governor's budget proposals that we are covering on the website, we will provide updates both here on the budget blog and on the appropriate issue's page. 

Finally, our website will undergo some formatting changes over the next couple of weeks, so please visit us again soon to check out all of the important budget news and our new look!


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Legislative Fiscal Bureau Draws Attention to Several Policy Changes in Proposed Budget that Affect Women's Health

4/9/2015

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The Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) released a memo to Republican State Senator Rob Cowles on Monday that lists 49 proposals contained in the Governor's 2015-2017 state budget recommendations that are primarily non-fiscal policy changes.  This means that these proposals do not have much connection to the the state's budget outlook and more closely resemble a proposal that would be introduced as separate, stand-alone legislation.

The memo lists 49 such items, some of which are incredibly important policy changes, such the proposal to convert the Natural Resources Board to the Natural Resources Advisory Council, thus greatly diminishing that body's influence on environmental policy.

Interestingly, the memo also separately mentions four items that do have a fiscal impact, but also represent significant policy changes.  Three of these issues have been covered extensively by the Wisconsin State Budget Impact on Women and Girls project.  These changes include:

  1. Drug testing for childless adults participating in BadgerCare, FoodShare employment and training (FSET), and other social safety net programs.
  2. Changes to existing long-term care programs for people with disabilities and the elderly, including Family Care and IRIS.  We have covered these changes extensively on this site and will continue to do so.  
  3. Providing significantly more administrative independence for the University of Wisconsin System by creating a UW-System Authority.
Democrats serving on the Joint Finance Committee support removing all non-fiscal items from the budget.  It appears that at least one Republican agrees with them, as Sen. Cowles made a similar statement to the media.

It remains to be seen whether those legislators calling for the removal of non-fiscal policy items from the budget include the four items listed separately in LFB memo.  We will continue to follow this closely and provide any other relevant updates regarding any potential changes to these provisions that impact Wisconsin's women and girls.


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    Cecely Castillo is the Policy Director at the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health and is overseeing our state budget impact on women and girls.  

    WAWH is fortunate to have a formidable team of interns contributing to this project. Our 2019 budget team includes: Jordyn Anklam, Talia Coney, Sarah Gaydos, and  Nicole  Poellinger.

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