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Committee Hears Bill to Standardize Notice for Revoking State Regulations, Remove Inactive Agencies from Five‑Year Review List
Summary
A legislative committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 77, which would require agencies to provide written notice to known interested parties before expeditiously revoking regulations and would remove inactive or abolished entities from a statutory five‑year review schedule.
The Committee on Legislative Modernization heard testimony on Senate Bill 77, a bill to require state agencies to give written notice to businesses, local governmental units and other known interested parties before revoking administrative rules, and to remove abolished or inactive entities from the statutory five‑year review schedule for regulations.
Gordon Self, Reviser of Statutes, told the committee that “Senate Bill 77 . . . deals with rules and regs in 2 aspects,” and summarized the bill as adding a notice requirement before revocation and updating the five‑year review timetable by removing abolished or inactive agencies from the list. Self said the bill makes the statutory list reflect current agencies so the periodic reviews apply only to active agencies.
Clay Barker, general counsel for the Kansas Secretary of State, testified that the bill responds to two problems…
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