Section 250.08. Distribution of funds to eligible tribal governing bodies.

  The department shall distribute all tribal medical relief block grant funds available beginning January 1, 1996, to eligible tribal governing bodies as follows:

(1)   Number of recipients.

(a) The department shall divide fifty percent of the total available tribal medical relief block grant funds by each eligible tribe's average per month number of relief to needy Indian persons program recipients during calendar year 1994 to determine the amount available per recipient.

(b) The department shall multiply the amount available for each recipient as determined under par. (a) by the number of relief to needy Indian persons program recipients during calendar year 1994 for each of the eligible relief block grant program tribes. The result shall be half of each tribe's allocation.

(2)   Medical assistance costs. The department shall determine each eligible tribe's percent of total relief to needy Indian persons medical assistance costs for calendar year 1994 and multiply fifty percent of the total available tribal medical relief block grant funds by the resulting percent for each eligible tribe. The result shall be half of each tribe's allocation.

(3)   Reallocation. If the department determines that a tribal governing body's existing allocation will not be exhausted before the end of the contract year ending September 30, the department may reallocate the funds in a manner consistent with the formula stated under subs. (1) and (2) .

(4)   Future allocations.

(a) After the tribal governing body contract year ending September 30, 1996, the department may distribute tribal medical relief block grant funds based upon each eligible tribal governing body's medical relief block grant expenditures for the year prior to the year of the allocation, expressed as a percentage of the total medical relief block grant expenditures of all eligible tribal governing bodies that same year.

(b) A tribal governing body not choosing to be eligible for a relief block grant in a particular contract year ending September 30 that chooses to participate in the program the following year shall be allocated an initial contract year amount based upon the tribe's population as a percentage of the total population of the tribe and all other tribes represented by eligible tribal governing bodies in the previous year.

History: Cr. Register, May, 1996, No. 485 , eff. 6-1-96.