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Committee advances bill to move Department of Labor rules from IDAPA into statute
Summary
Representative Laurie McCann said House Bill 54 incorporates existing IDAPA rules into statute to improve readability and centralize provisions; committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Representative Laurie McCann told a House committee that House Bill 54 would move a large set of Department of Labor rules out of IDAPA and into statute to make them easier to find and apply.
McCann said the legislation pulls numerous rule provisions into code — she described it as “74 pages” and said the intent is to improve readability by placing rules that govern unemployment insurance and related processes directly into statute rather than leaving them solely in administrative rule. The sponsor said department staff had worked with lawmakers to identify rule language appropriate for codification and that the director was available to answer detailed questions.
The committee considered the motion to send House Bill 54 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation. Seeing no testimony in opposition and no further discussion recorded in the transcript, the committee approved the motion by voice vote. The transcript records the voice vote and the chair’s announcement that the motion passed; no roll-call tally is recorded in the transcript.
The bill, if enacted, would codify existing rule language in statute; lawmakers and the department signaled readiness to review individual sections in later proceedings if requested.
