Senate Commerce Committee approves Idaho Department of Labor rule dockets; agency plans to move many provisions into statute

The Senate Commerce Committee approved three pending rule dockets from the Idaho Department of Labor on procedural and unemployment-insurance matters, the committee’s vice chair announced after voice votes.

The rules, presented by Janie Revere, director of the Idaho Department of Labor, are part of a comprehensive review under the governor’s zero‑based regulation initiative and are intended to “eliminate outdated rules and rules that restate state or federal statute,” Revere said. She told the committee that if the legislation the department plans to file does not pass, “the rules will stay as they are.”

Revere said the department will bring legislation this year “that will move significant portions of the rules into statute,” and that if that legislation and the rule changes are both approved the department expects to “eliminate about 75% of our rules.” She said the rewrite had no fiscal…