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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 994

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Relating to: certification requirements for building contractors. (FE)

Contractor Contracts Safety and professional services department of

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill makes the following changes related to certificates of financial

responsibility issued by the Department of Safety and Professional Services that

current law generally requires a person to hold in order to obtain a building permit:

1. Requires that a person complete an educational course that consists of

in-person or live virtual instruction to obtain a certificate of financial responsibility.

Under the bill, the course must include instruction on accounting, lien law, ethics,

and best business practices, and the applicant must show photo identification to

register attendance for the course. Current rules promulgated by DSPS require a

person to complete 12 hours in an approved educational course to obtain a certificate

of financial responsibility.

2. Requires a person to complete a total of at least four hours of continuing

education on construction laws and codes and contracts, liability, and risk

management every two years to maintain a certificate of financial responsibility.

Under the bill, these hours count towards the 12 hours of continuing education that

current law requires a certificate holder to complete every two years.

3. Requires providers of continuing education courses for financial

responsibility certificates to submit to DSPS test questions related to their courses

and verification that attendees completed their courses.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brooks (R) , Sortwell (R) , Spiros (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R)

5 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Feyen (R) , Jagler (R) , Petrowski (R) , Skowronski (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 8, Noes 0

Passed 8–0 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 4, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Spiros, Brooks, Sortwell, Thiesfeldt and Tittl; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Cowles, Feyen and Jagler

  2. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing and Real Estate

  3. Feb 16, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Spiros

  4. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  8. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Housing and Real Estate, Ayes 8, Noes 0

  9. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 9:20 AM on 2-23-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  11. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Skowronski added as a coauthor

  17. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  20. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  21. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  22. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-8-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  23. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  26. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  27. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Mar 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  29. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-10-2022

  30. Apr 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-4-2022 by directive of the Speaker

  31. Apr 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-8-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 237

  32. Apr 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Published 4-9-2022