HB82 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

April WeaverSenator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Administrative rules, further review by Legislative Reference Service and Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review of rules regulating professions by boards with active market participants, fees, Sec. 41-22-22.1 added

Summary

HB82 would require professional-regulating boards with active market participants to have their rules reviewed for potential anticompetitive effects by the Legislative Reference Service and the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review, with new fees to cover the review.

What This Bill Does

The bill adds a new section requiring the Legislative Reference Service to review each rule certified by a board or commission that regulates a profession and that has many active market participants. If a rule may significantly lessen competition, the Service certifies that finding to the committee, and the committee then decides to approve, disapprove, approve with amendments, or withdraw the rule (and may hold public hearings). Boards can also submit previously adopted rules for review, and the Service may charge fees to cover the review costs. If the committee does not act, the rule does not become effective.

Who It Affects

• Boards or commissions regulating professions where most board members are active market participants; their current and future rules would be reviewed for anticompetitive effects and may be delayed or revised based on committee decisions, with potential new review fees.
• The Legislative Reference Service and the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review, which must perform the reviews, issue determinations, potentially require rule withdrawals, and collect fees to cover the costs.

Key Provisions

• Requires the Legislative Reference Service to review each rule certified by certain profession-regulating boards to assess whether the rule may significantly lessen competition and whether it was made to displace competition.
• If a rule may lessen competition, the committee must review and decide to approve, disapprove, disapprove with amendment, or withdraw the rule; allows public hearings during committee review; rule becomes effective only if the committee acts.
• Authorizes boards to submit previously adopted rules for similar review and requires the committee to act within 45 days on such submissions.
• Allows the Legislative Reference Service to charge the boards or commissions a fee to cover the costs of the review.
• Effective immediately upon governor's approval.

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Subjects

Administrative Regulation Review, Joint Committee on