Bill Text: IA SF1 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring jobs impact statements for administrative rules. Effective 7-1-17.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 29-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1135. [SF1 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SF1-Enrolled.html
Senate File 1 - Enrolled
SENATE FILE
BY ANDERSON, BEHN,
BERTRAND, BREITBACH,
BROWN, CHAPMAN,
CHELGREN, COSTELLO,
DAWSON, DIX, EDLER,
FEENSTRA, GARRETT,
GREENE, GUTH, C.
JOHNSON, KAPUCIAN,
KRAAYENBRINK, LOFGREN,
ROZENBOOM, SCHNEIDER,
SCHULTZ, SEGEBART,
SHIPLEY, SINCLAIR,
SMITH, WHITVER, ZAUN,
and ZUMBACH
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 1
AN ACT
REQUIRING JOBS IMPACT STATEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE
RULES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. NEW SECTION. 17A.4B Job impact statement.
1. a. "Benefit" means the reasonably identifiable and
quantifiable positive effect or outcome that is expected to
result from implementation of a rule.
b. "Cost" means reasonably identifiable, significant, direct
or indirect, economic impact that is expected to result from
implementation of and compliance with a rule.
c. "Cost=benefit analysis" means regulatory analysis
to provide the public with transparency regarding the
cost=effectiveness of a rule, including the economic costs
and benefits and the effectiveness weighed by the agency
in adopting the rule. "Cost=benefit analysis" includes a
comparison of the probable costs and benefits of a rule to the
probable costs and benefits of less intrusive or less expensive
methods that exist for achieving the purpose of the rule.
d. "Jobs" means private sector employment including
self=employment and areas for potential for employment growth.
e. "Jobs impact statement" means a statement that does all
of the following:
(1) Identifies the purpose of a rule and the applicable
section of the statute that provides specific legal authority
for the agency to adopt the rule.
(2) Identifies and describes the cost that the agency
anticipates state agencies, local governments, the public, and
the regulated entities, including regulated businesses and
self=employed individuals, will incur due to implementing and
complying with a rule.
(3) Determines whether a rule would have a positive
or negative impact on private sector jobs and employment
opportunities in Iowa.
(4) Describes and quantifies the nature of the impact a rule
will have on private sector jobs and employment opportunities
including the categories of jobs and employment opportunities
that are affected by the rule, and the number of jobs or
potential job opportunities and the regions of the state
affected by the rule.
(5) Identifies, where possible, the additional costs to
employers per employee due to implementing and complying with
a rule.
(6) Includes other relevant analysis requested by the
administrative rules coordinator.
2. Prior to implementation of a rule, an agency shall
take steps to minimize the adverse impact on jobs and
the development of new employment opportunities due to
implementation of the rule.
3. An agency shall provide a jobs impact statement to the
administrative rules coordinator prior to publication of a
notice of intended action or the publication of a rule filed
without notice pursuant to section 17A.4, subsection 3.
4. The jobs impact statement shall be published as part
of the preamble to the notice of rulemaking in the Iowa
administrative bulletin, unless the administrative rules
coordinator determines that publication of the entire jobs
impact statement would be unnecessary or impractical.
5. An agency shall accept comments and information
from stakeholders prior to final preparation of the jobs
impact statement. Any concerned private sector employer or
self=employed individual, potential employer, potential small
business, or member of the public may submit information
relating to a jobs impact statement prior to publication of
a notice of intended action or publication of a rule filed
without notice pursuant to section 17A.4, subsection 3. An
agency may request that such information be submitted to the
agency.
6. If a jobs impact statement is revised after a notice
of intended action or a rule filed without notice pursuant to
section 17A.4, subsection 3, is published, the revised jobs
impact statement shall be published as part of the preamble
to the adopted version of the rule, unless the administrative
rules coordinator determines that publication of the entire
jobs impact statement would be unnecessary or impractical.
7. The analysis in the jobs impact statement shall give
particular weight to jobs in production sectors of the economy
which includes the manufacturing and agricultural sectors of
the economy and shall include analysis, where applicable, of
the impact of the rule on expansion of existing businesses or
facilities.
8. The administrative rules coordinator may waive the jobs
impact statement requirement for rules proposed under section
17A.4, subsection 3, or section 17A.5, subsection 2, paragraph
"b".
JACK WHITVER
LINDA UPMEYER
W. CHARLES SMITH
TERRY E. BRANSTA
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