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Senate Commerce panel approves Labor Department rule dockets; agency plans to move many provisions into statute
Summary
The Idaho Senate Commerce Committee approved three pending rule dockets from the Department of Labor that streamline unemployment insurance rules and signal an agency effort to move large portions of rule language into statute, agency officials told the committee.
The Idaho Senate Commerce Committee on an omnibus series of votes approved three pending rule dockets submitted by the Idaho Department of Labor that the agency says streamline administrative language and remove provisions that duplicate state or federal statute.
Janie Revere, director of the Idaho Department of Labor, told the committee the department "undertook a comprehensive review of the rules as part of the governor's 0 based regulation initiative" and that the department will bring legislation "that will move significant portions of the rules into statute." She said, "If the rule changes are approved and the legislation passes, we will eliminate about 75% of our rules."
The rule packages, described in the pending rule book and presented by Revere, contain no programmatic changes, the department said, and carry "no fiscal impact to the general fund or any dedicated or federal funds." The dockets cover: IDAPA 09.01.01.2401 (administrative…
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