Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0994

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)