Bill Text: NC H1230 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: APA Rules: Increasing Costs Prohibition

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-09 - Ref to the Com on State Government/State Personnel, if favorable, Environment and Natural Resources, if favorable, Judiciary I [H1230 Detail]

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

H                                                                                                                                                   D

HOUSE DRH70278-MC-157B*  (3/12)

 

 

 

Short Title:        APA Rules:  Increasing Costs Prohibition.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative Gibson.
Referred to:

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to limit new agency regulatory requirements.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 150B‑19 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"An agency may not adopt a rule that does one or more of the following:

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(7)        Results in additional costs on persons subject to the rule unless adoption of the rule is required to respond to at least one of the following:

a.         A serious and unforeseen threat to the public health, safety, or welfare.

b.         An act of the General Assembly or United States Congress.

c.         A change in federal or State budgetary policy.

d.         A federal regulation.

e.         A court order."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to rules adopted by an agency on or after that date.