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House panel approves bill to route costly administrative rules to Legislature, creates economic review unit
Summary
The House Administrative Rules Committee approved House Bill 2728 to require administrative rules with estimated first‑five‑year costs above $1 million to be treated as legislation and to create a Legislative Economic Analysis Unit (LEAU) inside LOFT to review agency cost valuations.
The House Administrative Rules Committee voted to approve House Bill 2728, a proposal that would require administrative rules with estimated first‑five‑year costs above $1 million to be processed as bills by the Legislature and establish a Legislative Economic Analysis Unit to review agency cost estimates.
Representative Kendrick, chairman of the Administrative Rules Committee, said HB 2728 — which he referred to as the RAINs bill ("Regulations in Need of Scrutiny") — would "set a cap on the administrative rules that are promulgated by agencies" so that any rule expected to "exceed a million dollar cost to citizens either in compliance or implementation costs in the first 5 years" would have to be filed and debated as legislation. Kendrick also said the bill creates the Legislative Economic Analysis Unit (LEAU), a unit located inside LOFT that will "assist the legislature, assist the administrative rules committee in reviewing the valuations put on those rules."
The LEAU, Kendrick said, will…
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