• State Government

The bill modifies the existing process by which principal
departments of the state, including agencies and officials within each
principal department of the state, adopt and annually review their rules by
making the following changes:
  • Requiring that a cost-benefit analysis be performed for
each proposed new rule or amendment of an existing rule;
  • Removing an exception that exempted rules relating to
orders, licenses, permits, adjudication, or rules affecting the
direct reimbursement of vendors or providers with state
money from a cost-benefit analysis;
  • Requiring, in each principal department's review of its
rules, an emphasis on the cost burden of the rule on the
state and its residents;
  • Requiring legislative committees of reference to take a
recorded vote on whether to support or modify the principal
department's recommendations included in the department's
report on the results of its mandatory review of rules as
presented to the committee in the departmental regulatory
agenda; and
  • Requiring each principal department to include, in its
department regulatory agenda distributed to legislative
committees of reference, a report on the revenue generated
in the previous fiscal year from permit and license fees for
which the amount of the fee is determined by rule.

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