Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0780

E 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, 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; requiring descriptions of proposed rules in mailed notices
to be easily readable and understandable and requiring notices in the state
register of proposed rules or rule amendments or repeals to include an easily
readable and understandable summary of the nature and effect of the rules;
eliminating 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 opting or required to
repeat the rule adoption procedure after rule withdrawal or 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
cancellation 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 (ja)