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Resources and Conservation Committee to begin rules review next week; vice chairman urges slower pace
Summary
Vice Chairman Representative Shepherd told the Resources and Conservation Committee it will begin a thorough review of administrative rules next week, starting with Fish and Game rules, and asked members to study a flagged provision he called potentially far-reaching.
The Resources and Conservation Committee will begin detailed rule reviews next week, committee members said at a meeting where Vice Chairman Representative Shepherd said he intends to slow the process and give members time to study proposed changes.
"I have no intention of rushing through them," Representative Shepherd, vice chairman of the committee, said. "Rules have the same application as law." He told colleagues the committee will begin with Fish and Game rules and will likely meet Tuesday and Thursday next week.
Shepherd urged members to read materials ahead of the hearings, pointing members to a notation in the Fish and Game packet. "If you're really bored and you wanted something to read I want everybody to put extra time into looking at page 10 of the fish and game rule and the bottom of that page what's in red. That's a perfect example of something that in my opinion, and this is strictly my opinion, something that looks harmless that could have wide reaching consequences throughout our entire lawmaking process," he said.
Shepherd also said the committee will receive agency performance reviews at the same time it reviews rules. The committee chair (not named in the meeting transcript) confirmed agencies that report to the committee must provide a review of how they are meeting their statutory charge.
Shepherd told members a staff presenter will brief the committee on the rulemaking process: "Ryan Bush will be here on the 20 first to just briefly explain the rule process and exactly what we're we're doing when we're doing rules," he said in the meeting record. The transcript does not specify whether that is a meeting date or a clerical reference; the committee did not provide an alternative calendar date during the remarks.
Committee members did not take a formal vote on rules at the meeting. The remarks set the schedule and expectations for next week's rule hearings, and the vice chairman said he will slow the pace to allow fuller review and comment.
The meeting also included routine administrative notes: the committee secretary added two annual reports to the shared OneDrive — the DEQ annual report and the Rangeland Resources Commission annual report — and Representative Hatch was introduced as filling in for Representative Mickelson.
Next steps: the committee will begin rule hearings next week with agency performance reviews and a staff briefing on the rule process before taking any formal action on rule changes.
