Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it stripped the Legislature of its power to halt bureaucrats’ regulations will take a constitutional amendment, say legal experts — though reforms in statute can help in the interim.

That damage so far includes a rush of new regulations, including a 1,700 percent increase in state fees on livestock auctions and a complex, expensive wholesale revision of the state’s commercial building code.

Lawmakers on the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules had the ability to delay or block such regulations until the Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in July to strip JCRAR of its authority. The bureaucracy may now propose, promulgate and enforce a regulation with only the governor’s say-so.

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