SB 997

Current law generally requires all permanent rules that are promulgated by

state agencies to be published in the Wisconsin Administrative Code. However,

current law allows an agency, in order to avoid unnecessary expense, to adopt

standards established by technical societies and organizations of recognized

national standing by incorporating the standards in its rules by reference to the

specific issue or issues of the publication in which they appear, without reproducing

the standards in full in their rules. Such incorporation by reference requires the

consent of the attorney general and requires the rule incorporating the standard to

state that the standards are on file at the offices of the agency and the Legislative

Reference Bureau.

This bill deletes the requirement that the agency state that the standards are

on file at the offices of the agency and instead requires only that the agency state that

the standards are on file at the Legislative Reference Bureau.

The bill also makes terminology changes related to the Nurse Licensure

Compact. Specifically, the bill removes the word “enhanced” from references in the

statutes to the Nurse Licensure Compact. Under current law, Wisconsin has entered

into the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows a registered nurse or licensed

practical nurse who is licensed in a state that has adopted the compact to practice

in any other state that has adopted the compact without needing to separately obtain

a license in that other state.

For further information, see the

Notes

provided by the Law Revision

Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.