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Committee advances update to Idaho Administrative Procedures Act, adds deadlines and modernizes contested‑case rules
Summary
Senators voted to send House Bill 9, a set of amendments to the Administrative Procedures Act, to the floor with a due pass. The bill modernizes language, clarifies roles, sets a 120‑day deadline for agency emergency contested‑case proceedings and removes an archaic "exceptions" process, supporters said.
The Idaho Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee voted to send House Bill 9 as amended to the Senate floor with a due pass after sponsors and the Office of Administrative Hearings described updates to longstanding contested‑case procedures.
Senator James Rucktee, sponsor of the measure, said the bill modernizes statutes originally based on a 1961 model Administrative Procedures Act and aligns Idaho’s contested‑case rules with more recent versions. He described the bill as mainly administrative cleanup that clarifies defined terms and replaces references to the former Office of the Attorney General with the Office of…
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