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Committee backs bill requiring a short explanatory sentence in public rule‑hearing notices
Summary
Lawmakers advanced House Bill 1355 after proponents said adding a one‑sentence explanation (and optional QR code) to the abbreviated newspaper notice will increase public awareness of rule hearings. The Attorney General proposed technical language; the committee voted unanimously to advance the bill.
Representative Vicki Steiner (R‑District 37) told the committee House Bill 1355 would add a short explanatory sentence to the abbreviated newspaper notice that announces upcoming administrative rule‑making hearings. “This bill simply adds a sentence of information on the topic of an upcoming public rule change hearing that's being printed in our newspapers,” she said.
Steiner and supporters said the current abbreviated notices typically list only a code reference or a terse title—examples she handed to the…
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