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8 General Description:
9 This bill modifies provisions relating to the Administrative Rules Review Committee
10 and provides legislative action regarding administrative rules.
11 Highlighted Provisions:
12 This bill:
13 ▸ provides that the Division of Administrative Rules shall provide a copy of each
14 issue of the bulletin to the Administrative Rules Review Committee;
15 ▸ makes technical amendments to provisions relating to the Administrative Rules
16 Review Committee; and
17 ▸ reauthorizes all state agency administrative rules.
18 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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20 Other Special Clauses:
21 This bill provides a special effective date.
22 Utah Code Sections Affected:
23 AMENDS:
24 63G-3-501, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 382
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26 ENACTS UNCODIFIED MATERIAL
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28 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
29 Section 1. Section 63G-3-501 is amended to read:
30 63G-3-501. Administrative Rules Review Committee.
31 (1) (a) There is created an Administrative Rules Review Committee of the following
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49 (ii) When a vacancy exists:
50 (A) if the departing member is a member of the Senate, the president of the Senate
51 shall appoint a member of the Senate to fill the vacancy; or
52 (B) if the departing member is a member of the House of Representatives, the speaker
53 of the House of Representatives shall appoint a member of the House of Representatives to fill
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55 (iii) The newly appointed member shall serve the remainder of the departing member's
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62 (d) (i) The president of the Senate shall designate a member of the Senate appointed
63 under Subsection (1)(a)(i) as a cochair of the committee.
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65 House of Representatives appointed under Subsection (1)(a)(ii) as a cochair of the committee.
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68 (f) (i) Subject to Subsection (1)(f)(ii), the committee shall meet at least once each
69 month to review new agency rules, amendments to existing agency rules, and repeals of
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71 (ii) The committee chairs may suspend the meeting requirement described in
72 Subsection (1)(f)(i) at the committee chairs' discretion.
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75 (2) The division shall submit a copy of each issue of the bulletin to the committee.
76 (3) (a) The committee shall exercise continuous oversight of the [
77 rulemaking process.
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85 (c) To carry out these duties, the committee may examine any other issues that [
86 committee considers necessary. The committee may also notify and refer rules to the
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88 agency when the committee determines that an issue involved in an agency's rules may be more
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91 principles of statutory construction.
92 (4) When the committee reviews existing rules, the committee chairs shall invite the
93 Senate and House chairs of the standing committee and of the appropriation subcommittee that
94 have jurisdiction over the agency whose existing rules are being reviewed to participate as
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104 agency that enacted the rule:
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111 (iii) the president of the Senate;
112 (iv) the speaker of the House of Representatives;
113 (v) the Senate and House chairs of the standing committee that has jurisdiction over the
114 agency that made the rule; and
115 (vi) the Senate and House chairs of the appropriation subcommittee that has
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122 each member of the Legislature at each regular session.
123 (b) The report shall include:
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128 (iii) any recommendations by the committee for legislation.
129 Section 2. Rules reauthorized.
130 All rules of Utah state agencies are reauthorized.
131 Section 3. Effective date.
132 If approved by two-thirds of all members elected to each house, this bill takes effect on
133 May 1, 2015.