AB842: Text as Enrolled

Date of enactment:
1997 Assembly Bill 842 Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1995-96: 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1997 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to amend 227.19 (2); and to create 227.19 (3g) of the statutes; relating to: requiring cost-benefit analyses in the rule-promulgation process.

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

AB842, s. 1 Section 1. 227.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

227.19 (2) Notification of legislature. An agency shall submit a notice to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature when a proposed rule is in final draft form. The notice shall be submitted in triplicate and shall be accompanied by a report in the form specified under sub. (3) and a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed rule in the form specified under sub. (3g). A notice received under this subsection on or after November 1 of an even-numbered year shall be considered received on the first day of the next regular session of the legislature. Each presiding officer shall, within 7 working days following the day on which the notice and, report and cost-benefit analysis are received, refer them to one committee, which may be either a standing committee or a joint legislative committee created by law, except the joint committee for review of administrative rules. The agency shall submit to the revisor for publication in the register a statement that a proposed rule has been submitted to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature. Each presiding officer shall enter a similar statement in the journal of his or her house.

AB842, s. 2 Section 2. 227.19 (3g) of the statutes is created to read:

227.19 (3g) Cost-benefit analysis. (a) The cost-benefit analysis required under sub. (2) shall be in writing and shall include all of the following:

1. The anticipated annualized cost of the proposed rule to all units of government in this state.

2. The anticipated annualized cost of the proposed rule to businesses and employes in the private sector in this state.

3. The anticipated annualized benefits of the proposed rule to the residents of this state.

(b) The cost-benefit analysis required under sub. (2) shall be in addition to the fiscal estimate required under s. 227.14 (4).

AB842, s. 3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to proposed rules submitted to the presiding officer of each house of the legislature under section 227.19 (2) of the statutes on the effective date of this subsection.