The time period to petition to review an administrative decision

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, as interpreted by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in Collins v. Policano , 231 Wis. 2d 420, 605 N.W. 2d 260 (Ct. App. 1999), a person has six months after the date of service of an administrative decision in a noncontested case to seek judicial review of the decision. Currently, a person must appeal an administrative decision in a contested case within 30 days after the date of service of the administrative decision. A contested case is an agency proceeding in which the assertion of a party of a substantial interest is denied or challenged by another party and, after a hearing, a substantial interest of a party is determined or adversely affected by an agency decision or order. All others are noncontested cases.

This bill requires a person to appeal an administrative decision within 30 days after the date of service of the administrative decision in both contested and noncontested cases.

Who's behind it

Fred A. Risser, a Democrat, is its author⁠.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.