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Committee reviews emergency-rule use after lapses at AG and Risk Management; staff cite notification failures
Summary
The committee reviewed emergency rules filed by the attorney general’s office and the Division of Risk Management after required five-year reviews or statutorily mandated July 1 updates lapsed; agency and Office of Administrative Rules staff said notification and staffing gaps caused the lapses and described fixes.
Lawmakers reviewed two emergency-rule filings from the attorney general’s office and an emergency rule from the Division of Risk Management after required administrative reviews or statutory publication deadlines were missed.
Paul Tonks, assistant attorney general, told the committee the attorney general’s administrative rules implementing the child protection registry and the white-collar-crime registry lapsed because the office failed to complete required five-year rule reviews. Tonks said the office immediately filed emergency rules on May 21, citing the statutory requirement that those registries be implemented and asserting that absence of rules would place the office in…
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