The legislative study committee for the commercial building process will review a proposal next week to let commercial developers start building before plan approval, as contractors and regulators search for a way to relieve project backlogs.

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Republican lawmakers are raising questions about why the state Department of Safety and Professional Services is taking weeks to issue licenses.

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The head of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services, an agency charged with reviewing commercial-building plans and issuing various trades licenses, is stepping down.

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The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services is switching to a new online submission system for commercial building plans and elevator plans starting in April.

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State lawmakers formally introduced a bill on Wednesday to change Wisconsin's commercial plan review process in the hopes of preventing a backlog of plan reviews from resurfacing.

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The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services will again require sprinkler systems in small apartment buildings after Attorney General Josh Kaul reversed a legal opinion from his Republican predecessor last fall.

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A bill circulating in the state Legislature aims to keep a months-long backlog in commercial plan reviews from reemerging by reviving changes to the review process that lawmakers had proposed last year.

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State officials are weighing how a legal opinion requiring fire sprinklers in apartment buildings could affect how state agencies enforce and adopt new administrative rules.

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To speed up commercial-plan approvals, state regulators are planning to make permanent a policy change that would no longer allow contractors and architects to schedule specific dates for plan reviews.

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Lawmakers this week will consider extending a series of pandemic-related rules intended to freeze employers' unemployment-insurance payments, waive job-search requirements for people receiving unemployment benefits and curtail the need for in-person fire and electrical inspections.

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