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Management Audit Committee advances LSO draft to implement Senate File 127 with changes to major-rule review
Summary
The Management Audit Committee advanced an LSO bill draft to implement Senate File 127’s major-rule review process, endorsing a definition that excludes emergency rules and sets a $200,000 annual economic threshold; the committee debated whether rules required to comply with federal law should be exempt and defeated amendments to change that text.
The Management Audit Committee voted to advance a Legislative Service Office (LSO) bill draft implementing Senate File 127 and the new major-rule regulatory-impact review process.
LSO administrator Matt Petri told the committee that Senate File 127 "gives the legislature more oversight over administrative rulemaking by executive branch agencies" and that the draft under consideration largely reflects the July version with one staff comment for the committee to consider: excluding rules required to comply with federal law from the definition of a major rule.
The draft the committee advanced (Veil draft, 26 LSO-01106) removes emergency rules from the definition of a major rule and sets a clarified economic threshold of $200,000 per year (the committee previously discussed $1,000,000 over five years). LSO attorney Josh Anderson explained the mechanics: the bill would require agencies to identify, at notice of adoption, rules that meet the major-rule definition and supply the information needed for LSO’s regulatory impact analysis; it would also direct…
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