SB204 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Greg AlbrittonSenator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Administrative procedures, terminology updated, business impact analysis further specified when agency is required to prepare, revise the name of the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review, Secs. 41-22-2, 41-22-3, 41-22-5, 41-22-5.1, 41-22-5.2, 41-22-6, 41-22-7, 41-22-8, 41-22-22, 41-22-22.1, 41-22-23, 41-22-27 am'd.

Summary

SB 204 updates Alabama's Administrative Procedure Act to require business impact analyses, strengthens oversight, updates the committee name, and changes when rules take effect.

What This Bill Does

It requires agencies to prepare a Business Economic Impact Analysis for proposed rules that would negatively affect businesses and to file the BEIA with the Legislative Services Agency, Legal Division; if the BEIA is not filed, the rule is invalid. It also flips the rule timing so no rule can become effective until at least 45 days after notice that the certified rule was filed, and it adds public posting, electronic notifications, and review provisions under a Red Tape Reduction framework. Lastly, it renames the oversight committee and sets a defined quorum for conducting business, establishing clearer procedural rules for rulemaking and review.

Who It Affects

• State agencies and boards that draft or amend rules: must prepare a BEIA for actions affecting businesses, file it with the Legislative Reference Service, and face invalidation if the BEIA is not filed; rules also take effect only after a 45-day minimum period after filing.
• The Legislative Reference Service, the renamed Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review, and related oversight staff: gain new responsibilities to receive, review, and publish BIAs and rule actions, and may implement costs to recover LRSA review work.

Key Provisions

• Require agencies to prepare and file a Business Economic Impact Analysis with the Legislative Reference Service for proposed rules that will negatively impact businesses; failure to file makes the rule invalid.
• Require that rules may not become effective until at least 45 days after notice that the certified rule was filed, incorporate 'The Red Tape Reduction Act' provisions (website posting, electronic notices, and potential agency review of burden reduction options), and allow for LRSA oversight and cost-recovery through fees.

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Subjects

Administrative Procedure