Section 35.03. Formula to determine grant amount.

  The minimum amount of a grant is $10,000. The department shall determine the amount of an initial grant awarded to a county, private agency, or Indian tribe in excess of the minimum amount based the following weighted criteria applied to the population in that county, the area in which the private agency is providing services, or the reservation of that Indian tribe:

(1)  The number of births that are funded by Medical Assistance under subch. IV of ch. 49 , Stats., shall be weighted 40 percent.

(2)  The rate of poor birth outcomes shall be weighted a combined total of 30 percent as follows:

(a) The infant mortality rate shall be weighted 10 percent.

(b) The premature birth rate shall be weighted 10 percent.

(c) The rate of low birth weights shall be weighted 10 percent.

(3)  The level of racial or ethnic disproportionality in poor birth outcomes under sub. (2) shall be weighted 30 percent. The level of racial or ethnic disproportionality in sub. (2) (a) , (b) , and (c) shall each be weighted 10 percent.

History: CR 10-028 : cr. Register August 2010 No. 656 , eff. 9-1-10.