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Committee advances wide slate of regulation updates; many items withdrawn for resubmission to align with legislation
Summary
The committee approved a package of regulatory actions including several withdrawal-and-resubmit requests to synchronize rules with pending bills or newly available agency approvals, and it approved repeals and technical cleanups across multiple agencies.
A legislative committee on regulatory matters approved a series of actions Tuesday, moving several regulations forward while asking agencies to withdraw and resubmit others so language can be aligned with pending statutes or newly obtained agency agreements.
The panel unanimously approved a withdraw-and-resubmit for Department of Natural Resources document 5441 to add U.S. Forest Service lands and extend a raccoon dog training season; it also cleared Board of Accountancy document 5420 and pharmacy permitting document 50422 for withdraw-and-resubmit to refine contested language. Hospital licensing updates (5408) were withdrawn and will be resubmitted to reflect pending legislation; charter school registration rules (5402) were withdrawn to conform to Senate bill S‑454 if enacted.
Other approvals included a technical cleanup to clarifiy the filing language for Workers' Compensation claims (5430), updated rules for self‑insured employers' use of letters of credit (5431), repeal of an obsolete private activity bond allocation rule after Act 202 of 2022 (5413), and modernized records‑retention rule removals for the Department of Archives and History (a set of related documents). The committee also approved updates affecting higher education, including Palmetto Scholars Fellowship alignment with ACT scoring (5405) and a residency regulation requiring a joint resolution for effect (5443).
Several items were approved by unanimous consent using the committee's prior‑vote procedure; where a roll call was requested, the clerk recorded affirmative votes and reported outcomes (for example, document 5441 was approved 8–0 for withdrawal and resubmission). The committee adjourned after completing the day's agenda.
Votes at a glance
- Doc 5441 (DNR, raccoon training season): Withdraw and resubmit — approved (roll call reported 8–0). - Doc 5420 (Board of Accountancy): Withdraw and resubmit — approved (unanimous consent). - Doc 50422 (pharmacy permitting): Withdraw and resubmit — approved (unanimous consent; agreed compromise removes 99‑48(b)(2)). - Doc 5408 (hospital licensing): Withdraw and resubmit to sync with pending legislation — approved (unanimous consent). - Doc 5443 (higher education residency): Approved with creation of joint resolution to make regulation effective — approved (unanimous consent). - Doc 5405 (Palmetto Scholars): Approved (aligns ACT/SAT scoring for scholarship eligibility). - Doc 5432 (foster care review): Repeal and replace — approved. - Doc 5431 (self‑insurance letters of credit): Approved. - Doc 5413 (private activity bond allocation): Repeal approved (statutory authority repealed by Act 202 of 2022). - Docs 5373–5381 (archives/records retention regulations): Repeals approved and applied by prior vote consent.
The committee recorded formal motions, several roll calls and multiple unanimous‑consent approvals; where agencies requested time to coordinate with pending legislation or external agencies, the committee generally granted withdrawal to allow revised filings.
