Senate File 376 - Introduced SENATE FILE 376 BY McKINLEY A BILL FOR An Act relating to requests for a regulatory analysis. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 2433SS (2) 84 jr/rj
S.F. 376 Section 1. Section 17A.4A, subsection 1, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. An agency shall issue a regulatory analysis of a proposed 3 rule that complies with subsection 2 , paragraph “a” , if, within 4 thirty-two seventy days after the published notice of proposed 5 rule adoption, a written request for the analysis is submitted 6 to the agency by the administrative rules review committee , or 7 the administrative rules coordinator or at least twenty-five 8 persons signing the request who are directly and adversely 9 affected by the rule or an organization representing at least 10 twenty-five such persons . An agency shall issue a regulatory 11 analysis of a proposed rule that complies with subsection 2 , 12 paragraph “b” , if the rule would have a substantial impact 13 on small business and if, within thirty-two days after the 14 published notice of proposed rule adoption, a written request 15 for analysis is submitted to the agency by the administrative 16 rules review committee, the administrative rules coordinator, 17 at least twenty-five persons signing that request who each 18 qualify as a small business or by an organization representing 19 at least twenty-five such persons. If a rule has been 20 adopted without prior notice and an opportunity for public 21 participation in reliance upon section 17A.4, subsection 3 , the 22 written request for an analysis that complies with subsection 23 2 , paragraph “a” or “b” , may be made within seventy days of 24 publication of the rule. 25 Sec. 2. Section 17A.4A, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph 26 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows: 27 Upon receipt by an agency of a timely request for a 28 regulatory analysis, which is received prior to the adoption of 29 the rule, the agency shall extend the period specified in this 30 chapter for each of the following until at least twenty days 31 after publication in the administrative bulletin of a concise 32 summary of the regulatory analysis: 33 EXPLANATION 34 This bill expands the period for requesting a regulatory 35 -1- LSB 2433SS (2) 84 jr/rj 1/ 2
S.F. 376 analysis statement for newly proposed administrative rules. 1 The current period is 32 days from the publication of a notice 2 of intended action. The bill expands this period to 70 days. 3 The bill also expands the eligible requesters of these analyses 4 by allowing 25 persons who are directly and adversely impacted 5 by the rule or an organization representing 25 such persons to 6 make the request. 7 -2- LSB 2433SS (2) 84 jr/rj 2/ 2