Scope statements
Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
Subject
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection gives notice, pursuant to s.
227.135, Stats., that it proposes to modify administrative rules as follows:
Technical rule changes.
Objective of Proposed Rule. Make minor technical changes and updates to a variety of current rules. Changes will not involve major policy issues.
Policy analysis
The department proposes to make a number of technical changes including the following:
•Update technical standards incorporated by reference in current rules (new editions of technical references cited in current rules).
• Correct erroneous and obsolete citations and cross-references .
• Correct typographical errors.
•Make non-substantive organizational and drafting changes.
• Make other minor changes to current rules.
This rule does not involve any significant policy issues.
Staff time required
The department estimates that it will use less than .1 FTE staff time to modify this rule. This includes research, drafting, preparing related documents, holding public hearings, and communicative with affected persons and groups. The department will use existing staff to develop this rule.
Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors
Subject
Current rules define contents of applications for licensure. Section
A-E 4.09 provides that applications for licensure will include specific information and documentation that will verify the applicants, education, experience and training. The current rules require that an application for licensure include the following:
• Transcripts verifying education and training.
• Personal and professional references.
• Employment history.
• Additional data, as needed.
Objective of Proposed Rule. To specify application documentation for applicants by comity and applicants for initial licensure.
Policy analysis
The rules do not provide specific application requirements for different types of applicants. For example, applications for original licensure now require the same documentation as applications by comity. Because applicants by comity are already licensed and practicing in another state, the documentation needed by the board to determine their eligibility for licensure in Wisconsin, is not the same as that needed for an applicant for initial licensure.
Statutory authority
Staff time required
100 hours.
Medical Examining Board
Subject
Effective June 2, 2000,
1999 Wisconsin Act 180 created the Occupational Therapists Affiliated Credentialing Board and made numerous substantive changes to the regulation of occupational therapists in Wisconsin. The board thereafter promulgated administrative rules required by the new law, which became effective January 1, 2003, and which may be found at chapters OT 1 to 5. The administrative rules found at ch.
Med 19, which governed the licensure of occupational therapists before creation of the new board, were not, through oversight, repealed.
Objective of Proposed Rule. To repeal ch.
Med 19 of the administrative rules.
Policy analysis
Failure to repeal the old rules governing licensure of occupational therapists may lead to confusion by licensees and the public as to which rules apply.
Statutory authority
Staff time required
5 hours.
Regulation and Licensing
Subject
Revisions to administrative rules relating to the regulation of licensed and certified appraisers.
Objective of Proposed Rule. To repeal and recreate Ch.
RL 87, Appendix
I, which contains the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), to incorporate by reference the revisions to the Standards that will be included in the 2004 edition of USPAP. [Note: The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) is published by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation.]
Policy analysis
These rules will adopt revisions that will be contained in the 2004 edition of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
Statutory authority
Staff time required
20 hours.
