LRB-1696/P1
KP:skw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Mott, BB0436 - Trade exam modernization
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
safety and professional services
Professional licensure
Trade exams administered by test service providers
Under the bill, DSPS is authorized to approve a test service provider to prepare, administer, and grade the examinations required for credentials to practice various trades, including for electricians, plumbers, fire sprinkler contractors and fitters, elevator mechanics, and blasters.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 101.022 of the statutes is amended to read:
101.022 Certain laws applicable to occupational licenses. Sections 440.03 (1), (3m), (4), (11m), and (13) (a), (am), and (b) 75., 440.05 (1) (a) and (2) (b), 440.07 (2) (b), 440.075, 440.09 (2), 440.11, 440.12, 440.121, 440.13, 440.14, 440.15, 440.19, 440.20 (1), (3), (4) (a), and (5) (a), 440.205, 440.21, and 440.22, and the requirements imposed on the department under those statutes, apply to occupational licenses, as defined in s. 101.02 (1) (a) 2., in the same manner as those statutes apply to credentials, as defined in s. 440.01 (2) (a).
Section
2. 145.02 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
145.02 (4) (a) The department shall prescribe rules as to the qualifications, examination and licensing of master and journeyman plumbers and restricted plumber licensees, for the licensing of utility contractors, for the registration of plumbing apprentices and pipe layers and for the registration and training of registered learners. The department may approve, in whole or in part, an examination prepared, administered, and graded by a test service provider. The plumbers council, created under s. 15.407 (16), shall advise the department in formulating the rules.
Section
3. 145.07 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
145.07 (2) Application for a master or journeyman plumber's examination, temporary permit or license shall be made to the department with fees. Unless the applicant is entitled to a renewal of license, a license shall be issued only after the applicant passes a satisfactory examination showing fitness. No such license or permit shall be transferable.
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