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Panel forwards bill requiring agencies to post rules and policies on agency websites
Summary
House Bill 222 would require state departments and commissions that maintain websites to post administrative rules and policy documents online and update them at least annually; the measure advanced from committee with a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Heather Scott presented House Bill 222 to the House State Affairs Committee, describing the bill as a narrow transparency measure that would require state agencies and commissions that maintain websites to post administrative rules and policy documents and keep them current at least once per year.
"If the Department has and maintains a website then they just need to post their administrative rules and their policies online and they need to make sure they're current," Scott said. "And that's really all this Bill does." She told members she intends the change to make rules easier to find by dividing postings by agency or commission rather than relying solely on the centralized Administrative Rules site.
Representative Alfieri asked whether there are departments that do not have websites; Scott said some agencies may lack their own websites and noted "there's 189 of them" when referring to the number of entities listed in the handout. Scott also said the State Comptroller's Office does not have administrative rules in the same way other agencies do.
Representative Keeley moved to send House Bill 222 to the House floor with a do-pass recommendation; the motion carried by voice vote.
The measure is intended to increase public access to agency rules and to align department web presences with administrative rule listings already maintained by the Department of Administration, according to testimony in the committee.
