Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 48.527

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Preceding: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next preceding that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01

From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (ck), the department shall allocate an amount equal to 15 percent of a county’s allocation in the preceding fiscal year under s. 48.526 or $750,000, whichever is less, in additional funds for a county that operates a secured residential care center for children and youth that was funded by a grant under 2017 Wisconsin Act 185, section 110 (4), and that serves juveniles from more than one county.