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Committee debates House Bill 5 to create legislative review of agency regulations; sponsors agree to pause for revisions
Summary
Lawmakers and agency officials debated House Bill 5, which would establish a committee process to review and renew executive‑branch regulations; sponsors and agency representatives flagged concerns about scope, federal preemption and workload and the committee agreed to table the measure for further work.
Representative Spiegelman presented House Bill 5, a proposal to amend Title 29 of the Delaware Code to create a legislative review process for executive branch regulations and to require agencies to submit regulations for periodic review.
Spiegelman told the House Administration Committee the bill is modeled on review systems used in other states and on Delaware’s sunset committee process and said the bill’s intent is to give the General Assembly a mechanism to review regulations that have the force of law. “This bill empowers this committee to look at things in the Department of Finance that would be federally illegal for the Department of Finance to give to this committee,” he said, noting those and other agency concerns are…
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