Resident Application: $180 plus testing fee of $103/line
Nonresident Application: $250
Resident Renewal: Biennial fee of $180/line of
authority
Nonresident Renewal: Biennial fee of $250
Iowa:
Resident Application: $50 plus testing fee of $71/line
Nonresident Application: $50
Resident Renewal: Biennial fee of $50
Nonresident Renewal: Biennial fee of $50
Michigan:
Resident Application: $10 plus testing fee of $51/line
Nonresident Application: $10
Resident Renewal: Biennial fee of $10
Nonresident Renewal: No Renewal Fees
Minnesota:
Resident Application: $40 plus $50/line plus testing
fee of $51/line
Nonresident Application: $40 plus $50/line of authority
Resident Renewal: Biennial fee of $40 plus $50/line
Nonresident Renewal: Biennial fee of $40 plus $50/line
Factual data and analytical methodologies
NAIC Model Agent Licensing laws
Analysis and supporting documentation used to determine effect on small businesses
The fee increases are minimal.
Small Business Impact
This rule may have an effect on small businesses.
Raising the application fees will affect the cost for new agents and agents seeking to expand their authority. It would be a one time fee at the time of licensing and thus have minimal impact. The fee increase is needed to cover the increased costs of testing for that line of authority and in issuing new licenses.
The biennial renewal fee increases would increase the costs for currently licensed agents every 2 two years when the fee is due. The increases are very minimal — $5 per year for resident agents and $10 per year for non resident agents.
Other changes would allow agents to take continuing education credits online, by correspondence course or by self study, thus giving agents more choices in how to gain the required credits. This probably would reduce costs for agents and would not require the agents to physically attend the continuing education classes.
Initial regulatory flexibility analysis
Types of small businesses affected: Insurance agents and agencies.
Description of reporting and bookkeeping procedures required: None beyond those currently required.
Description of professional skills required: None beyond those currently required.
Small business regulatory coordinator
The OCI small business coordinator is Eileen Mallow and may be reached at phone number (608) 266-7843 or at email address
eileen.mallow@wisconsin.gov
Fiscal Estimate
Summary
This rule change will have no significant effect on the private sector regulated by OCI.
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) currently has a contract with a vendor to provide resident agent licensing exams and tracking of continuing education credits for insurance agents. The cost of the contract to provide these services to resident agents is currently more than the revenues that OCI brings in from the resident agents. This increase in fees will bring the costs and revenues more into alignment.
OCI projects issuing a total of 19,257 resident and nonresident agent licenses each year. The increased revenue from the increase in agent license fees is projected to be $1,109,300 per year with $110, 900 of the revenue going to GPR-Earned and $998,400 being retained by OCI.
OCI projects a total of 56,007 resident and nonresident agent biennial renewals each year. The increased revenue from the increase in the biennial renewal fee is projected to be $908,800 per year with $90,900 going to GPR-Earned and $817,900 being retained by OCI.
Total GPR-Earned $201,800
Total PR $1,816,300
Total Revenue $2,018,100
State fiscal effect
Increase existing revenues.
Local government fiscal effect
None.
Long-range fiscal implications
OCI will no longer be paying its vendor more per resident agent licensing examination than it receives in revenues from these resident agents.
Agency Contact Person
Inger Williams, OCI Services Section, at:
Phone: (608) 264-8110
Address: 125 South Webster St – 2nd Floor,
Madison WI 53703-3474
Mail: PO Box 7873, Madison, WI 53707-7873
Notice of Hearing
Natural Resources
Environmental Protection — Air Pollution Control,
Chs.
NR 400—
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that pursuant to ss.
227.11 (2) (a),
285.11 (1) and
(16),
285.60 (6), and
285.67, Stats., the Department of Natural Resources, hereinafter the DNR, will hold a public hearing to consider proposed rule revisions to Chapters
NR 406,
407,
419,
439, and
484, relating to federal hazardous air pollutant regulations, biodiesel fuel, incorporation of statutory changes, and air permit applications.
The proposed revisions relate to issues for State Implementation Plan approvability, and the State Implementation Plan developed under s.
285.11 (6), Stats., will be revised.
Hearing Information
Date and Time: Location:
April 16, 2009 Dept. of Natural Resources Bldg.
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (GEF 2).— Room 613
101 South Webster Street
Madison, WI 53703
The public hearing site is accessible to people with disabilities. If you have special needs or circumstances that may make communication or accessibility difficult, please contact Robert Eckdale in writing at the DNR, Bureau of Air Management, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707; by E-mail to
robert.eckdale@wisconsin.gov; or by calling (608) 266-2856. A request must include specific information and be received at least 10 days before the date of the scheduled hearing.
Copies of Proposed Rule
The proposed rule and supporting documents, including the fiscal estimate, may be viewed and downloaded from the
Administrative Rules System Web site which can be accessed through the link provided on the Proposed Air Pollution Control Rules Calendar at
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/ air/rules/calendar.htm . If you do not have Internet access, a personal copy of the proposed rule and supporting documents, including the fiscal estimate, may be obtained free of charge by contacting Robert Eckdale, Bureau of Air Management Rules Coordinator, by e-mail at
robert.eckdale@ wisconsin.gov or by calling 608-266-2856.
Submission of Written Comments
Comments on the proposed rule must be received on or before April 24, 2009. Written comments may be submitted by mail, fax, E-mail, or through the Internet and will have the same weight and effect as oral statements presented at the public hearing. Written comments and any questions on the proposed rules should be submitted to:
Joseph Brehm
Department of Natural Resources
Bureau of Air Management (AM/7)
101 S Webster St, Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-267-7541
Fax: 608-267-0560
Analysis Prepared by the Department of Natural Resources
Statutes interpreted
Statutory authority
Explanation of agency authority
Section
227.11 (2) (a), Stats., gives state agencies general rulemaking authority. Section
285.11 (1), Stats., gives the Department authority to promulgate rules consistent with ch.
285, Stats. Section
285.11 (6), Stats., gives the Department the authority to develop a state implementation plan for the control of air pollution. Section
285.11 (16), Stats., requires the Department to promulgate rules, consistent with but no more restrictive than the federal clean air act, that specify the amounts of emissions that result in a stationary source being classified as a major source. Section
285.60 (6) Stats., allows the Department to promulgate rules to exempt types of stationary sources from the requirement to get a construction permit, if the potential emissions from the sources do not present a significant hazard to public health, safety, welfare or to the environment. Section
285.67, Stats., requires the Department to promulgate rules establishing criteria and procedures for revising air pollution control permits.
Related statute or rule
These rules relate directly to the permitting of activities that result in air emissions. The consent of the Attorney General will be requested for the incorporation by reference of an ASTM test method, in ch.
NR 484.
Plain language analysis
