H590 - Amend Administrative Procedure Laws. (SL 2019-140)

Overview: S.L. 2019-140 makes the following changes to State administrative procedure laws:

• Provides that an agency may make certain technical changes to its rules without submitting the changes to the Rules Review Commission.
• Permits the Codifier of Rules to make certain technical changes to an agency's rules.
• Amends the process for the periodic review of rules so that all rules are classified as necessary or unnecessary. Rules classified as necessary are subject to readoption.

The amendments to the process for the periodic review of rules became effective July 19, 2019, and apply to agency rule reports submitted to the Office of Administrative Hearings on or after October 1, 2019. The remainder of the act became effective July 19, 2019.