LRB-0496/P2
MED:wlj
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Potts, BB0056 - Meeting requirements
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
SAFETY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Professional licensure
The bill eliminates mandatory annual and semiannual meeting requirements for examining boards, affiliated credentialing boards, and other boards and councils under DSPS, except for the Medical Examining Board, which is required to meet 12 times each year. Under the bill, those boards and councils are instead generally required to meet on the call of the chairperson or a majority of the members of the board or council.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 15.07 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.07 (3) (b) Except as provided in par. pars. (bm) and (c), each board not covered under par. (a) shall meet annually, and may meet at other times on the call of the chairperson or a majority of its members. The auctioneer board, the cemetery board, and the real estate appraisers board shall also meet on the call of the secretary of safety and professional services or his or her designee within the department.
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2. 15.07 (3) (bm) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
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3. 15.07 (3) (bm) 6. of the statutes is repealed.
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4. 15.07 (3) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
15.07 (3) (c) Paragraph (b) does not apply to a board in the department of safety and professional services. A board in the department of safety and professional services shall meet on the call of the chairperson or a majority of its members. The auctioneer board, the cemetery board, and the real estate appraisers board shall also meet on the call of the secretary of safety and professional services or his or her designee within the department.
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5. 15.08 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.08 (3) (a) Every examining board shall meet
annually and may meet at other times on the call of the chairperson or of a majority of its members.
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6. 15.08 (3) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
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7. 15.085 (3) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 15.085 (3) and amended to read:
15.085 (3) Frequency of meetings. Every affiliated credentialing board shall meet annually and may meet at other times on the call of the chairperson or of a majority of its members.
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8. 15.085 (3) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
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9. 15.09 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 15.09 (3) (a) and amended to read:
15.09 (3) (a) Unless otherwise provided by law
, and except as provided in par. (b), every council shall meet at least annually and shall also meet on the call of the head of the department or independent agency in which it is created, and may meet at other times on the call of the chairperson or a majority of its members. A
(c) Unless otherwise provided by law, a council shall meet at such locations as may be determined by it unless the constitutional officer or secretary heading the department or the chief executive officer of the independent agency in which it is created determines a specific meeting place.
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10. 15.09 (3) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
15.09 (3) (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to a council in the department of safety and professional services. Unless otherwise provided by law, a council in the department of safety and professional services shall meet on the call of the secretary of safety and professional services or on the call of the chairperson or a majority of its members.
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11. 15.405 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.405 (2) (a) In operation, the examining board shall be divided into an architect section, a landscape architect section, a professional engineer section, a designer section, and a professional land surveyor section. Each section shall consist of the 3 members of the named profession appointed to the examining board and 2 public members appointed to the section. The examining board shall elect its own officers and shall meet at least twice annually.
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12. 15.407 (10) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.407 (10) (b) An employee of the department
of safety and professional services designated by the secretary of safety and professional services shall serve as secretary, but shall not be a member, of the uniform dwelling code council. The council shall meet at least twice a year. Seven members of the
uniform dwelling code council shall constitute a quorum. For the purpose of conducting business a majority vote of the uniform dwelling code council is required.
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13. 15.407 (14) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.407 (14) (b) The council shall meet at least twice a year. The employee of the department of safety and professional services designated by the secretary of safety and professional services under par. (a) 10. shall serve as nonvoting secretary of the conveyance safety code council.
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14. 15.407 (18) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
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