SB 420

2013 Wisconsin Act 20

provides that, effective January 1, 2015, administrative

rules promulgated by state agencies (rules) generally become effective on the first

day of the month commencing after the date on which a Wisconsin Administrative

Register (register) is published by the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB). In

addition, Act 20 requires the LRB to publish in the weekly register copies of all rules

filed with the LRB since the compilation of the previous register and to publish in

each end-of-month register updated chapters of the Wisconsin Administrative Code

(code) that have been affected by rules filed with the LRB.

This bill clarifies that a rule becomes effective on the first day of the month

commencing after the date on which the LRB publishes in the end-of-month register

the updated chapters of the code that have been affected by the rule.

Under current law, subject to certain exceptions, rule making by an agency

must be preceded by a notice and public hearing. The notice must, under current law,

be given at least ten days prior to the date set for a hearing, and notice through the

register is considered to have been given on the "effective date" of the issue of the

register in which the notice first appears. This bill clarifies that notice through the

register is considered to have been given on the

publication date

of the issue of the

register in which the notice first appears.