A credential holder may have a warning reviewed before the department or board that issued the warning. The bill requires the department to promulgate rules establishing uniform procedures for administrative warnings. The Role of Public Members of Licensure Boards by Lorayne Ritt Public members have served on licensure boards of the Department of Regulation and Licensing since 1975. In 1983, Wisconsin Act 403 increased the number of public members on licensure boards to two. Public board members are initially inexperienced in the profession being regulated and not connected to the regulated profession or licensed by the Board on which they serve.
Public members represent the consumer perspective.
Contributing to board decisions with the consumer s interest in mind provides balance to a Board to prevent bias toward the profession being regulated. Consumer protection is the basis of regulation. The public member must always be aware of the consumer advocacy role which is theirs. Technical expertise is provided by the professional members while public members provide consumer perspective. Together they balance consumer interest with safe, competent service.