SF 994 Senate Long Description
Modifying certain provisions regulating the adoption by state agencies of administrative rules; authorizing agencies to withdraw portions of certain proposed rules; expanding a certain provision requiring the revisor of statutes to approve the form of rules to exempt or expedited rules and modifying the procedure for approval of rules and rule form, eliminating a certain advice seeking requirement and clarifying the notice publication requirement; eliminating the requirement to publish the membership of agency rule advisory committees in the state register; requiring the chief administrative law judge to reduce the time period before publication for good cause; clarifying certain notice requirements relating to the statement of need and reasonableness; making mandatory the option of state agencies to notify certain persons not on agency lists of proposed rules; clarifying a certain provision providing for a comment period before the report of the administrative law judge; modifying the procedure for review of rule modifications; providing an exception to the requirements for advice on proposed rules for agencies required to repeat the rule adoption procedure for failure to publish a notice of adoption within the required time limit; clarifying the procedure for adoption of rules without public hearing and modifying certain requirements for the withdrawal of hearing requests, restricting the cancelation of hearings and requiring a repeat procedure under certain conditions; modifying certain copies requirements; clarifying certain requirements of the official rulemaking record and the force and effect of exempt rules (ra)