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House committee advances HB 4029 substitute to move rule-adoption date to June 1, keeps newspaper emergency notice
Summary
The House Natural Resources, Environment, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation Committee adopted the H-1 substitute to House Bill 4029, changing the rule-adoption date to June 1 while retaining an August 15 publication deadline and restoring a newspaper notice requirement for emergency rule adoptions per Department of Natural Resources suggestions.
The House Natural Resources, Environment, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation Committee on April 23 adopted the H-1 substitute to House Bill 4029, moving the administrative rule-adoption date to June 1 while leaving the publication deadline at Aug. 15 and reinstating a newspaper notice requirement for emergency rule adoptions.
Representative Slaw, the bill sponsor, told the committee the substitute reflected suggestions from the Department of Natural Resources and corrected an omission in the original draft: “So the rule adaption is actually June 1 with publication still being the August 15 date. And that was an agreed upon thing. As well as we reinserted the language regarding the newspaper notification of an emergency rule adoption. It was removed in just by accident in in the original draft. And so this would correct that and put that back in play.”
Committee members questioned the newspaper notice requirement, noting publication challenges in some communities. A committee member asked whether the notice must appear in a local paper; the chair replied that it is a statewide publication requirement. The clerk then recorded votes: the motion to adopt the H-1 substitute prevailed on a roll call (14 yays, 0 nays); a subsequent motion to report HB 4029 as H-1 out of committee carried on a later roll call (15 yays, 0 nays).
What the substitute does: the H-1 changes the administrative timeline so that the DNR’s rule adoption occurs by June 1, while publication of the rules remains tied to Aug. 15. The substitute also restores language requiring newspaper notification when an emergency rule is adopted, language the sponsor said had been deleted by accident in the original bill draft and restored at the DNR’s request.
The committee did not adopt any further amendments during the hearing, and members did not request additional staff reports or a fiscal analysis on the record. Formal votes were recorded by the clerk and the motions were adopted by unanimous recorded vote as noted above.
The committee is scheduled to meet again April 30; no further action dates on HB 4029 were announced at the hearing.
