HB275 Alabama 2021 Session

Under existing law, the Legislative Services Agency is required to establish and maintain an official register of administrative rules known as the Alabama Administrative Code. Under existing law, the Legislative Services Agency must publish the administrative code in loose leaf form and make it available at cost to subscribers. Also under existing law, the Legislative Services Agency is required to publish a monthly bulletin called the Alabama Administrative Monthly and make it available at cost on an annual subscription basis

Under existing law, the administrative procedure secretary of each agency is required to maintain and publish the administrative rules of the agency in loose leaf format

This bill would delete the requirement that the Legislative Services Agency publish the Alabama Administrative Code in loose leaf form and would require the Legislative Services Agency to publish the Alabama Administrative Code on the Internet

This bill would remove the requirement that the Legislative Services agency offer the Alabama Administrative Monthly as a paid annual subscription and, in lieu thereof, require the Legislative Services Agency to publish the Alabama Administrative Monthly on the Internet on a website that is viewable by the general public at no subscription charge

This bill would authorize the administrative procedure secretary of each agency to publish the administrative rules of the agency in loose leaf form, electronic form, or both

Relating to administrative procedure; to amendSection 41-22-7, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act2019-498 of the 2019 Regular Session, to remove therequirement that the Legislative Services Agency publish theAlabama Administrative Code in loose leaf form; to require theLegislative Services Agency to publish the AlabamaAdministrative Code and the Alabama Administrative Monthly onthe Internet in a format that is viewable by the generalpublic at no subscription charge; and to authorize theadministrative procedure secretary of each agency to publish the administrative rules of the agency in a loose leaf form,electronic form, or both.