SS. HFS 124.02 and 124.37 to 124.41 - Critical access hospitals.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The rules will not directly affect small businesses as “small business” is defined in s. 227.114 (1) (a), Stats. The rules apply to the Department and to nonprofit or public hospitals in rural areas of the state that wish to apply to the Department for designation as critical access hospitals and to operate as critical access hospitals.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Ch. HFS 119 - Operation of the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan (HIRSP).
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The rule changes will not affect small businesses as “small business” is defined in s.227. 114 (1) (a), Stats. No insurer assessed to help finance HIRSP is a small business by that definition. Moreover, s. 149.143, Stats., prescribes how the amount of an insurer's assessment is to be determined and the same statute prescribes how the amount of the adjustment to the health care provider payment rates is to be determined.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Chs. Ins 6 & 28 - Requirements for continuing education for insurance agents.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance has determined that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses and therefore a final regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Summary of Comments of Legislative Standing Committees:
The legislative standing committees had no comments on this rule.
Ch. Ins 3 - Revising the requirements for medicare supplement policies to comply with recent federal and state laws and revising the definition of advertising for health insurance
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance has determined that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses and therefore a final regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Summary of Comments of Legislative Standing Committees:
The legislative standing committees had no comments on this rule.
Chs. Ins 6 & 26 - Application process and requirements of prelicensing education for insurance agents
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance has determined that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses and therefore a final regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Summary of Comments of Legislative Standing Committees:
The legislative standing committees had no comments on this rule.
NR 20 - Recreational and commercial fishing regulations and fish refuges on the inland, outlying and boundary waters
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The proposed rules regulate individuals; therefore, a final regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees:
The proposed rules were reviewed by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Committee on Environment and Energy. The Assembly Natural Resources Committee held a public hearing on the proposed rule on July 9, 1998. The Committee on Natural Resources did not make any recommendations regarding the proposed rule.
S. NR 20.037(2) - Readjustment of daily bag limits for walleye in response to tribal harvest
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The proposed revision affects individual sport anglers in the ceded territory.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees:
The rules were reviewed by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Environment and Energy Committee. There were no comments.
Ch. NR 113 - Septage management.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The proposed modifications will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses. These revisions serve to clarify a number of issues and provide greater flexibility in general to the small businesses that service septage systems.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees:
The rules were reviewed by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Environment and Energy Committee. There were no comments.
Ch. NR 749 - Assessment and collection of fees providing assistance on the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated lands.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The ch. NR 749 emergency fee rule has been in effect since September 19, 1 998 and most of the submittals received thus far are case closeout requests, a majority of which are likely PECFA eligible. The Department of Commerce made the fees associated with case closeout requests and certain no-further-action determinations PECFA eligible expenses, which should significantly help PECFA sites defined as a small business.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees:
The rules were reviewed by the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Environment and Energy Committee. There were no comments.
Ch. RL 8 - The issuance and use of administrative warnings.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
These proposed rules will have no significant economic impact on small businesses, as defined s. 227.114 (1) (a), Stats.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Chs. RL 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86 & 87 - Real estate appraisers.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
These proposed rules will have no significant economic impact on small businesses, as defined in s. 227.114 (1) (a), Stats.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Ch. Tax 11 - The printing industry.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
The proposed rule order does not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small businesses.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Ch. Trans 29 - Accommodating utility facilities on state-owned railroad corridors.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
This proposed rule will have no adverse impact on small businesses.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Chs. Trans 325, 326 & 328 - Motor carrier safety regulations, motor carrier safety requirements for transportation of hazardous materials and motor carrier safety requirements for intrastate transportation of hazardous materials.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
This proposed rule will have no adverse impact on small businesses.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
Ch. Trans 197 - Charges for submission of proof insurance.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis:
This proposed rule will not have any adverse effect on small businesses, except to the extent that s. 342.42, as created by 1997 Wis. Act 27, imposes fees on businesses that submit more than 1000 insurance filings to the Department in a year and do not use electronic systems to make the filings.
Summary of Comments:
No comments were reported.
