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 rules under 
  1.11  section 14.14 or 14.22, the agency must make reasonable efforts 
  1.12  to send a copy of the same notice and a copy of the statement of 
  1.13  need and reasonableness to the following: 
  1.14     (1) all people who are still legislators and who were main 
  1.15  authors, or supporting authors, of the law granting the agency 
  1.16  the statutory authority the agency relies upon as authority to 
  1.17  adopt the proposed rule; and 
  1.18     (2) the chairs of the legislative policy and budget 
  1.19  committees with jurisdiction over the subject matter of the 
  1.20  proposed rules.  In addition, if the mailing of the notice is 
  1.21  within two years of the effective date of the law the agency 
  1.22  relies on as statutory authority to adopt the proposed rules, 
  1.23  the agency must make a reasonable effort to send copies of the 
  1.24  notice and the statement to all persons who are still 
  1.25  legislators and who were chief authors of that law or any 
  2.1   companion bills to the bill that was enacted.