Statutory authority
Staff time required
DATCP estimates that it will use approximately 0.5 FTE staff to develop this rule. This includes investigation, drafting, preparing related documents, coordinating advisory committee meetings, holding public hearings and communicating with affected persons and groups. DATCP will use existing staff to develop this rule.
Health and Family Services
Subject
The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services proposes to amend ch.
HFS 148, rules relating to the cancer drug repository program.
Policy analysis
2005 Wisconsin Act 16 amended s.
255.056, Stats, the Cancer Drug Repository.
2005 Wisconsin Act 16 requires the Department to amend ch.
HFS 148, which currently applies only to the drugs and supplies used to treat cancer. The proposed rules will amend ch.
HFS 148, to extend applicability of the chapter to drugs and supplies used to treat chronic diseases.
Act 16 expands the Cancer Drug Repository to allow individuals to donate chronic disease drugs or supplies that meet specific requirements to a repository to be dispensed to eligible persons with cancer or other chronic diseases. In doing so, the program will eliminate the potential waste of drugs and supplies due to changes in physician orders or patient death.
Pursuant to section
10 of
2005 Wisconsin Act 16, the Department is required to submit proposed rules to the Legislative Council Rules Clearinghouse no later than June 1, 2006.
Statutory authority
The Department's authority to promulgate these rules is under s.
255.056 (7), Stats.
Staff time required
The Department estimates it will take 40 hours of staff time to draft the rules.
Comparison with federal requirements
The proposed rules are affected by
21 CFR 200-
299,
21 CFR 1300-
1302, and
21 CFR 1304-
1308. These regulations constitute the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) regulations that will affect the type of medications that can to be donated to the cancer drug repository.
Veterans Affairs
Subject
Objective of the rule. The Department seeks to modify the county transportation services grant program rules by allowing the use of actual miles driven during a 12 month period or an estimate of miles driven, depending upon the circumstances in that county.
Policy analysis
The Department administers a county transportation services grant program under s.
45.83, Wis. Stats. Under the statute, counties that are not provided transportation services by the Wisconsin department of Disabled American Veterans are eligible to receive a grant from the Department. Initially, in an attempt to provide counties an incentive to develop and expand transportation services for veterans, the rules required the use of prospective, estimated mileage for the upcoming calendar year in the grant calculation. At this time, numerous counties have established a record of providing such services. Accordingly, it is now appropriate to calculate grants based upon either actual miles driven during a designated annual period or prospective estimates, depending upon the circumstances. The proposed amendment will establish the criteria for the use of actual or estimated mileage, which may include a redefinition of the relevant annual period.
Statutory authority
Staff time required
Approximately 20 hours of Department of Veterans Affairs staff time will be needed to promulgate the rules.
Entities affected by the rule
The rule will affect applicants for grants under the county transportation services grant program.
Comparison with federal requirements
The county transportation services grant program is administered under the authority of state law. There are no existing or proposed federal regulations that address the activities to be regulated by the rule.
