92 Relating to: service of notice for certain licensees, registrants, or holders of certificates or applicants for licensure, registration, or certification (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).

Date of enactment: March 13, 2008
2007 Senate Bill 328 Date of publication*: March 27, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 92

An Act to renumber and amend 50.03 (2m) (b); to amend 50.03 (2m) (a); and to create 50.03 (2m) (b) 1. and 50.03 (2m) (b) 2. of the statutes; relating to: service of notice for certain licensees, registrants, or holders of certificates or applicants for licensure, registration, or certification (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 50.03 (2m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

50.03 (2m) (a) Each licensee , registrant, or holder of a certificate or applicant for license licensure, certification, or registration by the department under this subchapter shall file with the department the name and address of a person authorized to accept service of any notices or other papers which the department may send by registered or certified mail, with a return receipt requested , or by mail or electronic mail, with a return acknowledgement requested . The person authorized by a nursing home under this paragraph shall be located at the nursing home.

Section 2 . 50.03 (2m) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 50.03 (2m) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:

50.03 (2m) (b) (intro.) Notwithstanding s. 879.05, wherever whenever in this subchapter the department is required to serve any notice or other paper on a licensee or applicant for license, proper service is personal service or the sending of the notice or paper by registered or certified mail, with a return receipt requested , if made to the most recent address on file with the department under par. (a) shall constitute proper service. , is the sending of the notice or paper by one of the following means:

Section 3 . 50.03 (2m) (b) 1. of the statutes is created to read:

50.03 (2m) (b) 1. By registered or certified mail, with a return receipt requested.

Section 4 . 50.03 (2m) (b) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

50.03 (2m) (b) 2. By mail or electronic mail, with a return acknowledgement requested.