Act 2015-291 of the 2015 Regular Session amended the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act to provide for the review by the Lieutenant Governor of rules adopted by an agency and disapproved by the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review.
This bill would specify that an agency may appeal the disapproval of a rule to the Lieutenant Governor within 15 days of the disapproval and the Lieutenant Governor would have an additional 15 days to review the disapproved rule. The bill would also specify that if the Office of the Lieutenant Governor is vacant, the rule would be suspended until adjournment of the next regular session and would be reinstated at the time unless the Legislature sustains the disapproval by joint resolution. The bill would also specify that Act 2015-291 would operate prospectively to rulemaking commenced by an agency on or after October 1, 2015.
Assigned Act No. 2015-527.
Signature Requested
Enrolled
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 56
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 41
Sanford motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 40
Sanford Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund
Source: Alabama Legislature