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Committee members press agencies on speed and transparency of rulemaking; KLRD offers to expedite tracking spreadsheet
Summary
During the meeting’s closing discussion, committee members raised concerns that agencies sometimes delay adopting rules required by statute. Jill Shelley of the Kansas Legislative Research Department offered to update and expedite a spreadsheet tracking rulemaking status; members debated whether the committee needs more authority or simply better
At the end of its agenda, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations discussed the pace and transparency of agency rulemaking following testimony earlier in the meeting.
Committee members said they sometimes observe long delays between enactment of statutes and agencies’ adoption of required rules. Senator Tyson and others asked whether the committee should push agencies to meet statutory deadlines or request additional reporting. Jill Shelley of the Kansas Legislative Research Department (KLRD) said she is updating a spreadsheet that tracks when legislation required rules and regulations and offered to expedite that report to the committee.
Representative Penn and others asked whether the committee has tools to enforce timeliness; staff and members noted the committee’s oversight is limited by statute and that legislative action would be needed to provide additional enforcement authority. Members discussed asking agencies to supply more structured data in the committee’s annual report about which statutes required rules, which agencies have complied, and what remains outstanding.
The committee concluded by asking staff to circulate more complete tracking information and to notify members when an agency signals a forthcoming rule; no formal vote or rulemaking action resulted from the discussion.
