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Wisconsin Republicans have chosen to give the state's embattled professional licensing agency a fraction of the new positions Democratic Gov. Tony Evers requested to improve turnaround times for applicants. Wait times for license applications to the state Department of Safety and Professional Services climbed to an average of nearly 80 days in 2021. That had dropped to 38 days earlier this year. But Republicans have still heaped criticism on Evers' administration for making life harder...

Wisconsin's Republican-controlled finance committee voted Thursday to slash Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' request for 80 new licensing positions to a tentative 17.

Wisconsin Republicans have chosen to give the states embattled professional licensing agency a fraction of the new positions Democratic Gov. Tony Evers requested to improve turnaround times for applicants. Wait

Lawmakers have been struggling to fill mounting vacancies within the prison system for years.

Wisconsin's Republican-controlled finance committee voted Thursday to give the state's embattled professional licensing agency a fraction of the new positions that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers requested to improve application turnaround times. Evers had included 80 new positions for the Department of Safety and Professional Services in his budget proposal. Republicans on the finance committee voted

The Assembly today passed a package of seven bills Republicans said will streamline professional licensing processes, while Dems argued DSPS needs more staff to do its job. 

In this week's Capitol Chats episode, Department of Safety and Professional Services Secretary Dan Hereth talks about how his agency has been working to address

The state agency will move more than 60 occupations to its cloud-based online platform LicensE for people applying for licenses or renewing them.

Wisconsin Republicans questioned the efforts of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration to fix lengthy delays in issuing professional licenses, even as an agency head said Thursday that wait times had improved.

Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) Secretary-designee Dan Hereth defended the agency’s budget staffing requests.