1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state government; specifying certain 
  1.3             contents for a statement of need and reasonableness 
  1.4             for proposed administrative rules; amending Minnesota 
  1.5             Statutes 2002, section 14.131.  
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 14.131, is 
  1.8   amended to read: 
  1.9      14.131 [STATEMENT OF NEED AND REASONABLENESS.] 
  1.10     By the date of the section 14.14, subdivision 1a, notice, 
  1.11  the agency must prepare, review, and make available for public 
  1.12  review a statement of the need for and reasonableness of the 
  1.13  rule.  The statement of need and reasonableness must be prepared 
  1.14  under rules adopted by the chief administrative law judge and 
  1.15  must include the following to the extent the agency, through 
  1.16  reasonable effort, can ascertain this information: 
  1.17     (1) a description of the classes of persons who probably 
  1.18  will be affected by the proposed rule, including classes that 
  1.19  will bear the costs of the proposed rule and classes that will 
  1.20  benefit from the proposed rule; 
  1.21     (2) the probable costs to the agency and to any other 
  1.22  agency of the implementation and enforcement of the proposed 
  1.23  rule and any anticipated effect on state revenues; 
  1.24     (3) a determination of whether there are less costly 
  1.25  methods or less intrusive methods for achieving the purpose of 
  2.1   the proposed rule; 
  2.2      (4) a description of any alternative methods for achieving 
  2.3   the purpose of the proposed rule that were seriously considered 
  2.4   by the agency and the reasons why they were rejected in favor of 
  2.5   the proposed rule; 
  2.6      (5) the probable costs of complying with the proposed rule, 
  2.7   including the portion of the total costs that will be borne by 
  2.8   identifiable categories of affected parties, such as separate 
  2.9   classes of governmental units, businesses, or individuals; and 
  2.10     (6) an assessment of any differences between the proposed 
  2.11  rule and existing federal regulations and a specific analysis of 
  2.12  the need for and reasonableness of each difference.  
  2.13     The statement must describe how the agency, in developing 
  2.14  the rules, considered and implemented the legislative policy 
  2.15  supporting performance-based regulatory systems set forth in 
  2.16  section 14.002. 
  2.17     The statement must also describe the agency's efforts to 
  2.18  provide additional notification under section 14.14, subdivision 
  2.19  1a, to persons or classes of persons who may be affected by the 
  2.20  proposed rule or must explain why these efforts were not made. 
  2.21     The agency must send a copy of the statement of need and 
  2.22  reasonableness to the legislative reference library when the 
  2.23  notice of hearing is mailed under section 14.14, subdivision 1a. 
  2.24     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.25     Section 1 is effective July 1, 2003, and applies to a 
  2.26  rulemaking proceeding for which notice of intent to adopt rules 
  2.27  is published in the State Register on or after that date.