Wisconsin SB 156: Relating to: retired credential status for certain professionals holding credentials granted by the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land Surveyors; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)

Bill Text

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SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO SENATE BILL 156
April 26, 2019 - Offered by Senator KOOYENGA.
AN ACT to amend 443.02 (3) and 443.02 (4); and to create 443.015 (1m) of the
statutes; relating to: retired credential status for certain professionals
holding credentials granted by the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape
Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land
Surveyors; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing
an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of
rule-making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects,
Professional Engineers, Designers, and Professional Land Surveyors must
promulgate rules to allow a credential holder who is at least 65 years of age or has
actively maintained that credential for a minimum of 20 years in total and who
certifies that he or she has retired from professional practice and no longer engages
in that practice to apply to the board to classify his or her credential as retired. Such
a credential holder is exempt from continuing education requirements and may
maintain his or her professional title but may not engage in the relevant practice.
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Also, under the bill, such a credential holder must pay only one-half of the applicable
renewal fee to maintain or reinstate his or her retired-status professional credential.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 443.015 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
443.015 (1m) (a) 1. Each section of the examining board shall promulgate rules
to do all of the following:
a. Allow the holder of a credential under this chapter who is at least 65 years
of age or has actively maintained that credential for at least 20 years, which need not
be consecutive, and who certifies that he or she has retired from and no longer
engages in the practice for which he or she holds the credential to apply to the board
to classify that credential as retired status.
b. Allow an individual who previously held a credential under this chapter, and
failed to renew that credential prior to the renewal date, to apply to the board to
renew the credential with retired status if the individual is at least 65 years of age
or had actively maintained that credential for at least 20 years, which need not be
consecutive, certifies that he or she has retired from and no longer engages in the
practice for which he or she previously held the credential, and pays the fee under
par. (d). Section 440.08 (3) (a) and (b) does not apply to the renewal of such a
credential.
c. Allow the holder of a credential classified as retired status as described under
subd. 1. a. or b. to apply to the appropriate section of the examining board to remove
the retired status classification if he or she satisfies reinstatement requirements
established by the appropriate section of the examining board by rule.
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SECTION 1
2. Rules promulgated under subd. 1. may not require a certification to be
notarized.
(b) Any rules a section of the examining board promulgates under sub. (1) shall
exempt a credential holder whose credential is classified as retired status under par.
(a) from continuing education requirements.
(c) 1. A credential holder whose credential is classified as retired status under
par. (a) may not engage in the practice for which he or she holds that credential.
2. A credential holder whose credential is classified as retired status under par.
(a) may continue to use a title in connection with that credential if he or she clearly
indicates to the public that he or she is retired, including by placing the abbreviation
“Ret." or similar appellation after his or her title.
(d) The renewal fee for a credential holder whose credential is classified as
retired status under par. (a) shall be one-half of the usual renewal fee that otherwise
applies.
SECTION 2. 443.02 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.02 (3) No Except as provided under s. 443.015 (1m) (c), no person may offer
to practice architecture, landscape architecture, or professional engineering or use
in connection with the person's name or otherwise assume, use or advertise any title
or description tending to convey the impression that he or she is an architect,
landscape architect, or professional engineer or advertise to furnish architectural,
landscape architectural, or professional engineering services unless the person has
been duly registered or has in effect a permit under s. 443.10 (1) (d).
SECTION 3. 443.02 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
443.02 (4) No Except as provided under s. 443.015 (1m) (c), no person may
engage in or offer to engage in the practice of