SB21: Bill Text

SB21,4098 Section 4098. 254.83 of the statutes is renumbered 97.638.

SB21,4099 Section 4099. 254.84 (title), (1), (2), (3) and (4) of the statutes are renumbered 97.639 (title), (1), (2), (3) and (4).

SB21,4100 Section 4100. 254.84 (5) of the statutes is renumbered 97.639 (5) and amended to read:

SB21,1557,7 97.639 (5) Construction. Nothing in this section may be construed to require establishments motels, motor courts, tourist cabins, or like accommodations to have outdoor or outside signs. This section shall be liberally construed so as to prevent untrue, misleading, false, or fraudulent representations relating to rates placed on outdoor or outside signs of the establishments.

SB21,4101 Section 4101. 254.84 (6) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4102 Section 4102. 254.85 of the statutes is renumbered 97.65, and 97.65 (1), (2), (3) and (4), as renumbered, are amended to read:

SB21,1557,20 97.65 Enforcement. (1) The department may enter, at reasonable hours, any premises for which a permit license is required under this subchapter or s. 254.47 97.67 to inspect the premises, secure samples or specimens, examine and copy relevant documents and records or obtain photographic or other evidence needed to enforce this subchapter or s. 254.47 97.67. If samples of food are taken, the department shall pay or offer to pay the market value of the samples taken. The department shall examine the samples and specimens secured and shall conduct other inspections and examinations needed to determine whether there is a violation of this subchapter, s. 254.47 97.67 or rules promulgated by the department under this subchapter or s. 254.47 97.67.

SB21,1558,11 (2) (a) Whenever, as a result of an examination, the department has reasonable cause to believe that any examined food constitutes, or that any construction, sanitary condition, operation or method of operation of the premises or equipment used on the premises creates, an immediate danger to health, the administrator of the division of the department responsible for public health may issue a temporary order and cause it to be delivered to the permittee licensee, or to the owner or custodian of the food, or to both. The order may prohibit the sale or movement of the food for any purpose, prohibit the continued operation or method of operation of specific equipment, require the premises to cease other operations or methods of operation which create the immediate danger to health, or set forth any combination of these requirements. The administrator may order the cessation of all operations authorized by the permit license only if a more limited order does not remove the immediate danger to health. Except as provided in par. (c), no temporary order is effective for longer than 14 days from the time of its delivery, but a temporary order may be reissued for one additional 14-day period, if necessary to complete the analysis or examination of samples, specimens or other evidence.

SB21,1558,21 (b) No food described in a temporary order issued and delivered under par. (a) may be sold or moved and no operation or method of operation prohibited by the temporary order may be resumed without the approval of the department, until the order has terminated or the time period specified in par. (a) has run out, whichever occurs first. If the department, upon completed analysis and examination, determines that the food, construction, sanitary condition, operation or method of operation of the premises or equipment does not constitute an immediate danger to health, the permittee licensee, owner, or custodian of the food or premises shall be promptly notified in writing and the temporary order shall terminate upon his or her receipt of the written notice.

SB21,1559,4 (c) If the analysis or examination shows that the food, construction, sanitary condition, operation or method of operation of the premises or equipment constitutes an immediate danger to health, the permittee licensee, owner, or custodian shall be notified within the effective period of the temporary order issued under par. (a). Upon receipt of the notice, the temporary order remains in effect until a final decision is issued under sub. (3), and no food described in the temporary order may be sold or moved and no operation or method of operation prohibited by the order may be resumed without the approval of the department.

SB21,1559,18 (3) A notice issued under sub. (2) (c) shall be accompanied by a statement which informs the permittee licensee, owner, or custodian that he or she has a right to request a hearing in writing within 15 days after issuance of the notice. The department shall hold a hearing no later than 15 days after the department receives the written request for a hearing, unless both parties agree to a later date. A final decision shall be issued under s. 227.47 within 10 days of the conclusion of the hearing. The decision may order the destruction of food, the diversion of food to uses which do not pose a danger to health, the modification of food so that it does not create a danger to health, changes to or replacement of equipment or construction, other changes in or cessations of any operation or method of operation of the equipment or premises, or any combination of these actions necessary to remove the danger to health. The decision may order the cessation of all operations authorized by the permit license only if a more limited order will not remove the immediate danger to health.

SB21,1559,24 (4) A proceeding under this section, or the issuance of a permit license for the premises after notification of procedures under this section, does not constitute a waiver by the department of its authority to rely on a violation of this subchapter, s. 254.47 97.67, or any rule promulgated under this subchapter or s. 254.47 97.67 as the basis for any subsequent suspension or revocation of the permit license or any other enforcement action arising out of the violation.

SB21,4103 Section 4103. 254.86 of the statutes is renumbered 97.71 and amended to read:

SB21,1560,8 97.71 Suspension or revocation of permit license. The department or a local health department designated as an agent under s. 254.69 97.615 (2) or 97.41 (2) may refuse or withhold issuance of a permit license under this chapter or may suspend or revoke a permit license for violation of this subchapter chapter or any rule or order of the department of health services, ordinance of the village, city or county or regulation of the local board of health.

SB21,4104 Section 4104. 254.87 of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4105 Section 4105. 254.88 of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4106 Section 4106. 255.054 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1560,16 255.054 (2) Annually by January 1, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Authority shall each report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor on the prostate cancer research projects each has conducted under sub. (1) in the previous fiscal year.

SB21,4107 Section 4107. 255.055 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1560,22 255.055 (2) Annually by January 1, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc., and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Authority shall each report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor on the cancer research projects each has conducted under sub. (1) in the previous fiscal year.

SB21,4108 Section 4108. 255.08 of the statutes is renumbered 463.25, and 463.25 (2) (a) and (b), as renumbered, are amended to read:

SB21,1561,5 463.25 (2) (a) No person may operate a tanning facility without a permit that the department may, except as provided in ss. 250.041 and 254.115 s. 463.14, issue under this subsection. The holder of a permit issued under this subsection shall display the permit in a conspicuous place at the tanning facility for which the permit is issued.

SB21,1561,12 (b) Permits issued under this subsection shall expire annually on June 30. Except as provided in ss. 250.041 and 254.115 s. 463.14, a permit applicant shall submit an application for a permit to the department on a form provided by the department with a the permit fee established by the department by rule under s. 440.03 (9). The application shall include the name and complete mailing address and street address of the tanning facility and any other information reasonably required by the department for the administration of this section.

SB21,4109 Section 4109. 255.15 (3) (b) 11. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4110 Section 4110. 257.01 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1561,20 257.01 (5) (a) An individual who is licensed as a physician, a physician assistant, or a podiatrist under ch. 448, licensed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse-midwife under ch. 441, licensed as a dentist under ch. 447, licensed as a pharmacist under ch. 450, licensed as a veterinarian or certified as a veterinary technician under ch. 453 89, or certified as a respiratory care practitioner under ch. 448.

SB21,4111 Section 4111. 257.01 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1562,4 257.01 (5) (b) An individual who was at any time within the previous 10 years, but is not currently, licensed as a physician, a physician assistant, or a podiatrist under ch. 448, licensed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse-midwife, under ch. 441, licensed as a dentist under ch. 447, licensed as a pharmacist under ch. 450, licensed as a veterinarian or certified as a veterinary technician under ch. 453 89, or certified as a respiratory care practitioner under ch. 448, if the individual's license or certification was never revoked, limited, suspended, or denied renewal.

SB21,4112 Section 4112. 281.19 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1562,7 281.19 (6) Orders issued by the department shall be signed by the person designated by the board secretary.

SB21,4113 Section 4113. 281.31 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1562,12 281.31 (3) (b) 2. Locate and maintain information relating to the state's water resources. The department shall collect pertinent data available from state, regional and federal agencies, the University of Wisconsin System Authority, local units of government and other sources.

SB21,4114 Section 4114 . 281.33 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1562,23 281.33 (2) State storm water management plan. The department, in consultation with the department of safety and professional services, shall promulgate by rule a state storm water management plan. This state plan is applicable to activities contracted for or conducted by any agency, as defined under s. 227.01 (1) but also including the office of district attorney, unless that agency enters into a memorandum of understanding with the department of natural resources in which that agency agrees to regulate activities related to storm water management. The department shall coordinate the activities of agencies, as defined under s. 227.01 (1), in storm water management and make recommendations to these agencies concerning activities related to storm water management.

SB21,4115 Section 4115 . 281.33 (2) of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

SB21,1563,10 281.33 (2) State storm water management plan. The department shall promulgate by rule a state storm water management plan. This state plan is applicable to activities contracted for or conducted by any agency, as defined under s. 227.01 (1) but also including the office of district attorney and the University of Wisconsin System Authority, unless that agency enters into a memorandum of understanding with the department of natural resources in which that agency agrees to regulate activities related to storm water management. The department shall coordinate the activities of agencies, as defined under s. 227.01 (1), in storm water management and make recommendations to these agencies concerning activities related to storm water management.

SB21,4116 Section 4116. 281.55 (6) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1563,19 281.55 (6) (b) 1. These payments shall not exceed 50% of the approved project in conjunction with the state program of advancement in anticipation of federal reimbursement under sub. (2). To provide for the financing of pollution prevention and abatement facilities, the natural resources board secretary, with the approval of the governor, subject to the limits of s. 20.866 (2) (tm) may direct that state debt be contracted as set forth in subd. 2. and subject to the limits set therein. Said debts shall be contracted for in the manner and form as the legislature hereafter prescribes.

SB21,4117 Section 4117. 281.57 (7) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1564,2 281.57 (7) (c) 1. Metropolitan sewerage districts that serve 1st class cities are limited in each fiscal year to receiving total grant awards not to exceed 33% of the sum of the amounts in the schedule for that fiscal year for the appropriation under s. 20.165 (2) (de) $771,738 and the amount authorized under sub. (10) for that fiscal year plus the unencumbered balance at the end of the preceding fiscal year for the amount authorized under sub. (10). This subdivision is not applicable to grant awards provided during fiscal years 1985-86, 1986-87, 1988-89 and 1989-90.

SB21,4118 Section 4118. 281.58 (8) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1564,9 281.58 (8) (a) 2. Connection laterals and sewer lines that transport wastewater from structures to municipally owned or individually owned wastewater systems, unless water other than wastewater is entering the connection laterals or sewer lines from the ground or from above-ground sources and is being transported from a nonindustrial structure in a way that may interfere with compliance with a permit issued to a publicly owned treatment work under ch. 283.

SB21,4119 Section 4119. 281.58 (8) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1564,16 281.58 (8) (c) Except as provided in par. (k), financial assistance may be provided for the design, planning and construction of a collection system, interceptor or individual system project in an unsewered municipality or an unsewered area of a municipality, only if the department finds that at least two-thirds of the initial flow will be for wastewater originating from residences in existence on October 17, 1972 for at least 20 years prior to the submission of the application under sub. (9) (a).

SB21,4120 Section 4120. 281.58 (8) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1564,22 281.58 (8) (i) After June 30, 1991, no municipality may receive for projects in a biennium an amount that exceeds 35.2% of the amount approved by the legislature under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for that biennium.

SB21,4121 Section 4121. 281.58 (8) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1565,2 281.58 (8) (j) The amount of a payment under sub. (6) (b) 8. may not exceed the amount of subsidy necessary to reduce the interest rate on the loan from market rate to the interest rate that would have been charged on a loan to the municipality under sub. (6) (b) 4.

SB21,4122 Section 4122. 281.58 (9) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1565,16 281.58 (9) (e) If the department of natural resources and the department of administration determine that the governor's recommendation, as set forth in the executive budget bill, for the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), the amount available under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under s. 281.59 (4) (f) the total amount that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for a biennium , as set forth in the biennial finance plan under s. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. and as updated under s. 281.59 (3) (bm) 2., is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which applications will be approved during that biennium, the department shall inform municipalities that, if the governor's recommendations are approved, clean water fund program assistance during a fiscal year of that biennium will be available only to municipalities that submit financial assistance applications by the June 30 preceding September 30 of that fiscal year.

SB21,4123 Section 4123. 281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1565,19 281.58 (9m) (a) (intro.) Subject to pars. (c) and par. (d), the department shall approve an application after all of the following occur:

SB21,4124 Section 4124. 281.58 (9m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4125 Section 4125. 281.58 (9m) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1566,2 281.58 (9m) (e) 1. Except as provided under par. (f) and sub. (13), if a sufficient amount of subsidy financial assistance under this section is available under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the municipality's project, based on the calculation under s. 281.59 (3e) (f), when the department approves the application under par. (a), the department of administration shall allocate that amount to the project.

SB21,4126 Section 4126. 281.58 (9m) (e) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1566,8 281.58 (9m) (e) 2. If a sufficient amount of subsidy financial assistance under this section is not available under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the municipality's project when the department approves the application under subd. 1. par. (a), the department shall place the project on a list for allocation when additional subsidy becomes financial assistance becomes available.

SB21,4127 Section 4127. 281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1566,15 281.58 (9m) (f) (intro.) If the department of natural resources and the department of administration determine that the amount approved under s. 281.59 (3e) (b), the amount available under s. 20.866 (2) (tc), or the amount available under s. 281.59 (4) (f) available to provide financial assistance for projects under this section for a biennium is insufficient to provide funding for all projects for which applications will be approved during that biennium, all of the following apply:

SB21,4128 Section 4128. 281.58 (9m) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1566,21 281.58 (9m) (f) 1. The department shall establish a funding list for each fiscal year of the biennium that ranks projects of municipalities that submit financial assistance applications under sub. (9) (a) no later than the June 30 preceding September 30 of the fiscal year in the same order that they appear on the priority list under sub. (8e).

SB21,4129 Section 4129. 281.58 (9m) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1567,4 281.58 (9m) (fm) The department, in consultation with the department of administration, shall promulgate, by rule, methods to establish deadlines for actions that must be taken by a municipality to which subsidy financial assistance has been allocated. The methods may provide for extending deadlines under specified circumstances. If a municipality fails to meet a deadline, including any extension, the department of administration shall release rescind the amount allocation of subsidy allocated to financial assistance for the municipality's project.

SB21,4130 Section 4130. 281.58 (9m) (g) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4131 Section 4131. 281.58 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1567,12 281.58 (12) (a) 1. Except as modified under par. (f) and except as restricted by sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h), the interest rate for projects specified in sub. (7) (b) 1. and 2. is 60 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for a biennium before the 2011-13 biennium and 75 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the 2011-13 biennium or later.

SB21,4132 Section 4132. 281.58 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1567,19 281.58 (12) (a) 2. Except as modified under par. (f) and except as restricted by sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h), the interest rate for projects specified in sub. (7) (b) 5. is 65 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for a biennium before the 2011-13 biennium and 75 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the 2011-13 biennium or later.

SB21,4133 Section 4133. 281.58 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1568,2 281.58 (12) (a) 3. Except as modified under par. (f) and except as restricted by sub. (8) (b), (c), (f) or (h), the interest rate for projects specified in sub. (7) (b) 4. is 70 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for a biennium before the 2011-13 biennium and 75 percent of market interest rate for projects for which the subsidy is allocated from the amount under s. 281.59 (3e) (b) for the 2011-13 biennium or later.

SB21,4134 Section 4134. 281.58 (13m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1568,7 281.58 (13m) (b) Grants provided under this subsection are not included for the purposes of determining under sub. (8) (i) the amount that a municipality may receive for projects under the clean water fund program. Grants awarded under this subsection are not considered for the purposes of sub. (9m) (e) or s. 281.59 (3e) (b).

SB21,4135 Section 4135. 281.58 (15) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1568,13 281.58 (15) (a) The department and the department of administration may, at the request of a municipality, issue a notice of financial assistance commitment to the municipality after the department approves the municipality's application under sub. (9m) (a) and the department of administration has allocated subsidy financial assistance for the municipality's project.

SB21,4136 Section 4136. 281.59 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1568,23 281.59 (1) (b) "Market interest rate" means the effective interest rate on a fixed-rate revenue obligation issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section or, for a variable rate if the department of administration determines that there has been a significant change in interest rates after the fixed-rate revenue obligation has been issued or if a fixed-rate revenue obligation has not been issued by the state to fund a loan made under this section, the effective interest rate that the department of administration determines would have been paid if the variable rate a fixed-rate revenue obligation had been sold at a fixed rate issued on the date financial assistance is allotted.

SB21,4137 Section 4137. 281.59 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4138 Section 4138. 281.59 (1m) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4139 Section 4139. 281.59 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1569,4 281.59 (3) (a) 2. The total amount of that the department of administration projects will be available to provide financial assistance planned to be provided or committed for projects under subd. 1. during the next biennium.

SB21,4140 Section 4140. 281.59 (3) (a) 6. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4141 Section 4141. 281.59 (3) (a) 6e. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4142 Section 4142. 281.59 (3) (a) 6m. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4143 Section 4143. 281.59 (3) (a) 7. of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4144 Section 4144. 281.59 (3) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB21,1569,16 281.59 (3) (j) No later than November 1 of each odd-numbered year, the department of administration and the department jointly shall submit a report, to the building commission and committees as required under par. (bm), on the implementation of the amount established under sub. (3e) (b) as required under s. 281.58 (9m) (e), and on the operations and activities of the clean water fund program, the safe drinking water loan program and the land recycling loan program for the previous biennium.

SB21,4145 Section 4145. 281.59 (3e) (a) of the statutes is repealed.

SB21,4146 Section 4146. 281.59 (3e) (b) of the statutes is repealed.