Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 46 - Social services.
46.206 - Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.

46.206 Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.
(1)
(a) The department shall supervise the administration of social services, except for social services provided under ch. 48 and subch. III of ch. 49, community-based juvenile delinquency-related services, and juvenile correctional services. The department shall submit to the federal authorities state plans for the administration of social services, except for social services provided under ch. 48 and subch. III of ch. 49, community-based juvenile delinquency-related services, and juvenile correctional services, in such form and containing such information as the federal authorities require, and shall comply with all requirements prescribed to ensure their correctness.
(b) All records of the department and all county records relating to social services shall be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by authorized representatives of the federal government. Notwithstanding ss. 48.396 (2) and 938.396 (2), all county records relating to the administration of the services and public assistance shall be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by authorized representatives of the department.
(bm) All records of the department relating to aid provided under s. 49.46, 49.465, 49.468, 49.47, 49.471, or 49.77 are open to inspection at reasonable hours by members of the legislature who require the information contained in the records in pursuit of a specific state legislative purpose. All records of any county relating to aid provided under s. 49.46, 49.465, 49.468, 49.47, 49.471, or 49.77 are open to inspection at reasonable hours by members of the board of supervisors of the county or the governing body of a city, village or town located in the county who require the information contained in the records in pursuit of a specific county or municipal legislative purpose. The right to records access provided by this paragraph does not apply if access is prohibited by federal law or regulation or if this state is required to prohibit such access as a condition precedent to participation in a federal program in which this state participates.
(c) The department may at any time audit all county records relating to the administration of the services and public assistance specified in this section and may at any time conduct administrative reviews of county departments under ss. 46.215 and 46.22. If the department conducts an audit or administrative review in a county, the department shall furnish a copy of the audit or administrative review report to the chairperson of the county board of supervisors and the county clerk in a county with a single-county department or to the county boards of supervisors and the county clerks in counties with a multicounty department, and to the director of the county department under s. 46.21 or 46.22.
(2) The county administration of all laws relating to social services shall be vested in the officers and agencies designated in the statutes.
History: 1973 c. 147; 1977 c. 271, 449; 1981 c. 329, 335; 1983 a. 27, 239, 487; 1985 a. 176; 1987 a. 27 s. 3202 (24); 1987 a. 403 s. 256; 1989 a. 31; 1995 a. 27, 77; 1997 a. 35; 2007 a. 20; 2015 a. 55.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 46 - Social services.

46.001 - Purposes of chapter.

46.011 - Definitions.

46.014 - Secretary, powers and duties.

46.016 - Cooperation with federal government.

46.017 - Legal actions.

46.018 - Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.

46.02 - Agency powers and duties.

46.027 - Contract powers.

46.028 - Electronic benefit transfer.

46.03 - Department, powers and duties.

46.031 - County social service and mental hygiene budget and contract.

46.034 - Authority to establish services integration and coordination pilot programs.

46.035 - Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.

46.036 - Purchase of care and services.

46.04 - Anchorage program.

46.041 - Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes.

46.042 - Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children.

46.043 - Additional services of mental health institutes.

46.044 - State psychiatric institute.

46.047 - State-operated residential facilities and support services.

46.048 - Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.

46.055 - Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons.

46.056 - Wisconsin Resource Center.

46.057 - Mendota juvenile treatment center.

46.058 - Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.

46.06 - Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.

46.064 - Client wages, allowances and release payments.

46.066 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.

46.07 - Property of patients or residents.

46.09 - Purchases, bills, audits, payments.

46.10 - Cost of care and maintenance, liability; collection and deportation counsel; collections; court actions; recovery.

46.13 - Wassermann tests.

46.14 - Reports of state institutions.

46.15 - Institutions subject to chapter 150.

46.16 - General supervision and inspection by department.

46.17 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.

46.175 - County institutions: minimum standards.

46.18 - Trustees of county institutions.

46.19 - Officers and employees of county institutions.

46.20 - Joint county institutions.

46.205 - County home in adjoining county.

46.206 - Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.

46.208 - Relief block grants; functions of state department.

46.21 - Institutions and department of human services in populous counties.

46.215 - County department of social services in populous counties.

46.22 - County social services.

46.225 - Indigency determinations.

46.23 - County department of human services.

46.234 - Recovery residences; registration.

46.238 - Infants and unborn children whose mothers abuse controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or alcohol.

46.245 - Information for certain pregnant women.

46.248 - Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants.

46.269 - Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs.

46.271 - Long-term support pilot projects.

46.272 - Children's community options program.

46.275 - Community integration program for residents of state centers.

46.277 - Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care.

46.278 - Community integration program and brain injury waiver program for persons with developmental disabilities.

46.2785 - Community Opportunities and Recovery Program.

46.279 - Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities.

46.28 - Revenue bonding for residential facilities.

46.2804 - Client management of managed care long-term care benefit.

46.2805 - Definitions; long-term care.

46.281 - Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care.

46.283 - Resource centers.

46.284 - Care management organizations.

46.285 - Operation of resource center and care management organization.

46.286 - Family care benefit.

46.287 - Hearings.

46.288 - Rule-making.

46.2895 - Long-term care district.

46.2896 - Counting promissory notes as assets.

46.2897 - Self-directed services option.

46.2898 - Employment of individuals with disabilities; long-term care programs.

46.2899 - Services for the developmentally disabled who receive post-secondary education.

46.29 - Council on physical disabilities.

46.293 - Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired.

46.295 - Interpreters for the hearing-impaired.

46.297 - Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.

46.298 - Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired.

46.33 - Employee counseling referral programs.

46.34 - Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants.

46.37 - Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County.

46.40 - Community aids funding.

46.45 - Carry-over of community aids funds.

46.47 - Grants for nonnarcotic drug treatment in county jails.

46.48 - Grants for community programs.

46.482 - Coordination of care in substance use overdose.

46.485 - Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.

46.49 - Allocation of federal funds for community aids.

46.495 - Distribution of community aids funds to counties.

46.50 - State mental health authority.

46.52 - Systems change grants.

46.53 - Mental health treatment provider training.

46.535 - Crisis intervention training grants.

46.536 - Crisis program enhancement grants.

46.54 - Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.

46.545 - Individual placement and support.

46.55 - Grants for services to persons in treatment.

46.56 - Initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families.

46.57 - Grants for services to persons with epilepsy.

46.65 - Treatment alternative program.

46.70 - Delivery of services to American Indians.

46.71 - American Indian drug abuse prevention, treatment and education.

46.75 - Food distribution grants.

46.77 - Food distribution administration.

46.80 - Aging.

46.81 - Benefit specialist program.

46.82 - Aging unit.

46.85 - Programs for older individuals.

46.856 - Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.

46.86 - Treatment programs.

46.87 - Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.

46.90 - Elder abuse reporting system.

46.94 - Referral system for community-based services.

46.96 - Independent living center grants; independent living services.

46.972 - Primary health for homeless individuals.

46.973 - Drug dependence program.

46.975 - Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.

46.977 - Guardianship grants.

46.986 - Respite care program.

46.99 - Medical assistance waiver for Birth to 3 participants.

46.995 - Disabled children's long-term support program; local funding.