No comments were reported.
Health and Family Services
A rule-making order revising ch.
HFS 144, relating to the statewide immunization program and affecting small business. Effective 3-1-08.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
Day care centers are organized as small businesses [about 95% of the 2,485 group (9 or more children) day care centers in the state are small businesses, as are all of the 3,122 family (4-8 children) day care centers]. Day care centers will experience some increase in workload in tracking compliance with the requirement for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), reporting compliance to the Department, and in referring noncompliant students to the district attorney or corporation counsel for enforcement action. It is not known how much workload will increase or its impact, if any, on costs. However, since 85% of children in Wisconsin have already received PCV, the vast majority of day care center students will be compliant with the requirement when it takes effect and will not require warning letters from day care centers or enforcement action by district attorneys. Additionally, the tracking and reporting burden on day care centers will be mitigated by requiring fewer than the maximum number of doses of PCV. Day care centers for many years have been checking for compliance with required immunizations for school entry. They are part of the system for protecting children against diseases that are preventable through administration of approved vaccines.
Day care centers are the only small businesses that the proposed rules will affect. Pursuant to the foregoing analysis, the Department believes that these rules will not have a significant economic impact on day care centers.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Health and Family Services
A rule-making order revising ch.
HFS 145, relating to communicable disease list revisions and reporting communicable diseases, and affecting small business. Effective 3-1-08.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
This rulemaking is unlikely to have a significant
economic impact on the private sector generally, and any health care facilities or laboratories that may meet the definition of small business in s.
227.114 (1), Stats., in particular. It includes no fees, failure to comply with the rulemaking carries no penalties and communicable disease reporting mechanisms are already in place. Usual costs to the private sector include completing and mailing communicable disease case report forms, or keying-in and transmitting data electronically, to local health departments or the Department. These tasks are frequently performed by the infection control practitioner or clerical staff. Since the largest laboratories will be reporting automatically through electronic laboratory reporting, there will be minimal impact on these laboratories. Requests from the State Epidemiologist or the Local Health Officer for negative test results to justify release from isolation or quarantine are anticipated to be infrequent, as are requests from the State Epidemiologist that specimens to be forwarded to a public health laboratory for confirmatory or investigation purposes.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Transportation
A rule-making order revising ch.
Trans 129, relating to motorcycle courses. Effective 3-1-08.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The rule will have minimal effect upon small businesses.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
Veterans Affairs
A rule-making order revising ch.
VA 2, relating to the tuition reimbursement program. Effective 3-1-08.
Summary of Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The rule will have no effect upon small businesses.
Summary of Comments by Legislative Review Committees
No comments were reported.
