The statutory authority for these rule changes is found in the following:
1. Section 230.05(5), Stats., grants the Administrator of the Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection general authority to promulgate rules on provisions for which the administrator has statutory responsibility.
2. The specific statutory authority to examine the qualifications of applicants for positions in the civil service is found in s. 230.15(1).
3. Section 230.17 grants the Administrator authority to refuse certification to a candidate.
Text of Proposed Rule
SECTION 1. ER-MRS 6.08 (2) is amended to read:
ER-MRS 6.08 (2) Examination Except as provided in sub. (3), examination information which may not be released includes but is not limited to the following:
SECTION 2. ER-MRS 6.08(3) is created to read:
ER-MRS 6.08 (3) For certified individuals, the administrator may release to the appointing authority the following examination information, but only after the employment interview questions have been finalized:
(a) Narrative responses to open-ended examination questions such as essay or achievement history.
(b) Tapes of oral examinations.
(c) Resumes, letters of interest, and other narrative examination material provided by the certified candidates as long as the materials released do not contain scores, comments, ratings, or other evaluations.
SECTION 3. ER-MRS 11.04 (1) (h) is created to read:
ER-MRS 11.04 (h) Failure to appear for scheduled interview. When a person does not appear for a mutually agreed upon scheduled interview and does not provide a valid reason for such failure to appear within 5 work days of the interview date.
Fiscal Estimate
Supplying relevant information about candidates to hiring managers will speed the interviewing process and so save time for state agencies.
The removal of individuals who are not interested in interviewing for a positions from the list of candidates will also speed the hiring process and save time for state agencies. These changes will have no dollar impact.
Contact Person
Elizabeth Reinwald
Department of Employment Relations
345 West Washington Avenue
Madison, WI 53703
608-266-5316
Notice of Hearing
Insurance
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the authority granted under s. 601.41(3), Stats., and the procedure set forth in under s. 227.18, Stats., OCI will hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of the attached proposed rulemaking order affecting Section Ins 6.59 (4) (av), Wis. Adm. Code, relating to the exemption of attorneys seeking licensure for title insurance from certain testing requirements.
Hearing Information
March 22, 2000 Room 6, OCI
Wednesday 121 East Wilson Street
10:00 a.m., or as soon Madison, WI
thereafter as the matter
may be reached
Written comments on the proposed rule will be accepted into the record and receive the same consideration as testimony presented at the hearing if they are received at OCI within 14 days following the date of the hearing. Written comments should be addressed to: Robert Luck, OCI, PO Box 7873, Madison WI 53707
Fiscal Estimate
There will be no state or local government fiscal effect.
Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
This rule does not impose any additional requirements on small businesses.
Contact Person
A copy of the full text of the proposed rule changes and fiscal estimate may be obtained from the OCI internet WEB site at
http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/oci/ocirules.htm or by contacting Tammi Kuhl, Services Section, Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, at (608) 266-0110 or at 121 East Wilson Street, PO Box 7873, Madison WI 53707-7873.
Notice of Hearings
Natural Resources
(Fish, Game, etc., Chs. NR 1-)
Notice is hereby further given that pursuant to ss. 29.014, 29.041 and 227.11(2)(a), Stats., interpreting ss. 29.014, 29.041 and 29.177, Stats., the Department of Natural Resources will hold public hearings on revisions to chs. NR 10, 11, 15 and 16, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to hunting, trapping and captive wildlife. The proposed rules:
1. Eliminate the New Auburn subzone for migratory birds.
2. Establish a mourning dove hunting season, daily bag limit and possession limit; remove the mourning dove from the protected animal list and require non-toxic shot for hunting of mourning doves.
3. Establish a snowshoe hare hunting season, daily bag limit and possession limit.
4. Allow unfilled gun deer licenses to be used during the muzzleloader deer season and allow deer of either sex to be harvested with the unfilled deer tag in the Mississippi River block units during the muzzleloader season.
5. Change the area closed to coyote hunting during the gun deer season.
6. Create hunting hour areas and zones to more accurately reflect the intended opening and closing time.
7. Establish hunting hours for gun bear, bow deer, deer with firearms and small game.
8. Repeal old hunting hours table.
9. Allow the same cartridges that are legal to hunt deer or bear in a rifle to be legal in a handgun.
10. Lengthen legal trapping hours.
11. Establish timely registration of bobcat, fisher and otter harvest.
12. Create wolf management zones.
13. Modify the Horicon zone boundary.
14. Add portions of Eau Claire and Pepin counties to the pheasant management zones.
15. Eliminate the Pine Island wildlife refuge.
16. Create a closed season for resting waterfowl in the Winx Flowage area.
17. Require game farm mute swans to be penned or sterlilized.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to ss. 29.014(1), 29.041 and 227.11(2), Stats., interpreting ss. 29.014(1) and 29.041, Stats., the Department of Natural Resources will hold public hearings on revisions to chs. NR 20, 22 and 26, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to fishing regulations on inland and boundary waters and fish refuges on inland waters. The proposed rules:
1. Add several streams and stream reaches to the definition of “Lake Michigan tributaries" to include waters that are accessible to anadromous trout and salmon.
2. Modify the special early catch and release trout season.
3. Establish special regulations for walleye, sauger and their hybrids, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and catfish in Yellowstone lake, Lafayette county, with a daily bag limit of 2 of these species in total, with a minimum length limit of 12"and a maximum length limit of 14".
4. Establish a minimum length limit of 18" and a daily bag limit of one for largemouth and smallmouth bass on Christner lake, Sawyer county.
5. Reduce the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Chetac, Birch, Christner, Moose and Nelson lakes, Sawyer and Washburn counties.
6. Establish a minimum length limit of 18" and a daily bag limit of one for largemouth and small bass on Big and Little Gerber lakes, Sheboygan county.
7. Establish a minimum length limit of 18" and a daily bag limit of one for largemouth and smallmouth bass on Lake Twelve; establish a 40-inch minimum length limit with a daily bag limit of one for northern pike on Beg Cedar and Gilbert lakes, and reduce the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Lake Twelve, Washington county.
8. Extend the prohibition on night fishing and on hook with gaps larger than one-half inch on Lake Michigan tributaries by one month, beginning on September 1 rather than October 1, and prohibit fishing in any manner from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise on Lake Michigan tributaries during the period from September 1 to December 31.
9. Establish a closed season from April 2 to May 21 for yellow perch in Lake Superior.
10. Establish a minimum length limit of 26" and a daily bag limit of 2 for northern pike on Lake Michigan waters south of a line running east from the eastern terminus of Waldo boulevard in the city of Manitowoc and on the entire Manitowoc river.
11. Establish a minimum length limit of 15 inches and a daily bag limit of 5 for walleye, sauger and hybrids on Lake Michigan waters south of U.S. highway 10.
12. Establish a daily bag limit of 25 of each species for white or yellow bass, crappies, rock bass, sunfish or bluegills and yellow perch on the Wisconsin-Iowa boundary waters.
13. Establish a fish refuge from March 1 to the Friday preceding the first Saturday in May on the Lake Hallie outlet stream, Chippewa county.
14. Establish a fish refuge from July 15 to October 31 on the Bayfield Hatchery outlet ditch, Bayfield county.
15. Establish a fish refuge on Yellowstone lake sub-impoundment and rearing pond, Lafayette county, at any time while posted closed to fishing with department signs.
Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Notice is hereby further given that pursuant to s. 227.114, Stats., it is not anticipated that the proposed rules will have an economic impact on small businesses.
Notice is hereby further given that the Department has made a preliminary determination that this action does not involve significant adverse environmental effects and does not need an environmental analysis under ch. NR 150, Wis. Adm. Code. However, based on the comments received, the Department may prepare an environmental analysis before proceeding with the proposal. This environmental review documents would summarize the Department's consideration of the impacts of the proposal and reasonable alternatives.
Hearing Information
