HF 129

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to administrative procedure; changing certain 
  1.3             requirements for notifying the legislature of proposed 
  1.4             rulemaking; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 
  1.5             14.116. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 14.116, is 
  1.8   amended to read: 
  1.9      14.116 [NOTICE TO LEGISLATURE.] 
  1.10     When an agency mails notice of intent to adopt initial 
  1.11  rules under section 14.14 or 14.22 in accordance with a new 
  1.12  legislative grant of rulemaking authority, the agency must make 
  1.13  reasonable efforts to send a copy of the same notice and a copy 
  1.14  of the statement of need and reasonableness to the following: 
  1.15     (1) all people who are still legislators and who were main 
  1.16  authors, or supporting authors, of the law granting the agency 
  1.17  the statutory authority the agency relies upon as authority to 
  1.18  adopt the proposed rule; and 
  1.19     (2) the chairs of the legislative policy and budget 
  1.20  committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter of the 
  1.21  proposed rules.