2017 Wisconsin Act 158

  Date of enactment: March 28, 2018
2017 Assembly Bill 330   Date of publication*: March 29, 2018

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2017 WISCONSIN ACT 158

An Act to create 227.111 of the statutes; relating to: the rule-making authority of certain agencies.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

158,1 Section 1. 227.111 of the statutes is created to read:

227.111 Rule-making authority of certain agencies. (1) In this section, “restricted agency” means an affiliated credentialing board, as defined in s. 15.01 (1g), a board, as defined in s. 15.01 (1r), a commission, as defined in s. 15.01 (2), or an examining board, as defined in s. 15.01 (7), that has not taken any action under this subchapter with respect to the promulgation of a rule in 10 years or more.

(2) Notwithstanding ss. 227.10 and 227.11 and any other provision authorizing or requiring a restricted agency to promulgate rules, a restricted agency may not take any action with respect to the promulgation of a rule unless a subsequent law specifically authorizes such action.