45 Relating to: financial aid for service members and their immediate families and making an appropriation. (FE)

  Date of enactment: August 5, 2013
2013 Senate Bill 120   Date of publication*: August 6, 2013

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 45

An Act to amend 20.465 (2) (r), 321.45 (1) (b) and 321.45 (2) of the statutes; relating to: financial aid for service members and their immediate families and making an appropriation.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 20.465 (2) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:

20.465 (2) (r) Military family relief. All moneys received from the military family relief fund for the payment of financial aid to military service members and their families under s. 321.45 and for all of the administrative costs that the department incurs in making those payments.

Section 2 . 321.45 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

321.45 (1) (b) "Service member" means a resident of this state who is a member of a reserve unit of the U.S. armed forces , including any reserve component, or of the national guard who is a resident of this state and who is serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces .

Section 3 . 321.45 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

321.45 (2) The department shall provide financial aid to eligible service members and eligible members of the immediate family of service members. The department shall promulgate rules establishing eligibility criteria and the amount of financial aid.