Bill Text: NY S00327 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires state agencies to review all rules adopted before 1997 over a certain period of time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00327 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00327-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         327--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  MURPHY,  AKSHAR, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Commerce,  Economic  Development  and Small Business -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to
          periodic review of existing rules
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 207 of the state administrative
     2  procedure act is amended by adding  a  new  paragraph  (c)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (c)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of paragraph (a) and (b) of this
     5  subdivision, rules:
     6    (i) adopted before January first, nineteen  hundred  sixty,  shall  be
     7  reviewed  and  re-proposed on or before December thirty-first, two thou-
     8  sand nineteen;
     9    (ii) adopted between January first, nineteen hundred sixty and  Decem-
    10  ber  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-nine, shall be reviewed and
    11  re-proposed on or before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one;
    12    (iii) adopted between January  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy  and
    13  December  thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-nine, shall be reviewed
    14  and re-proposed on or before December thirty-first, two  thousand  twen-
    15  ty-three;
    16    (iv) adopted between January first, nineteen hundred eighty and Decem-
    17  ber  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred eighty-nine, shall be reviewed and
    18  re-proposed on or before December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  twenty-
    19  five; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02330-02-7
        S. 327--A                           2
     1    (v)  adopted between January first, nineteen hundred ninety and Decem-
     2  ber thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-six,  shall  be  reviewed  and
     3  re-proposed on or before December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-sev-
     4  en.
     5    Each  state  agency shall review its own rules in accordance with this
     6  paragraph. Such reviews shall determine the relevance of each rule  with
     7  respect to current technology, whether the rule is duplicative of feder-
     8  al  regulation  and whether the rule is outdated. No such rules shall be
     9  re-proposed under the emergency rule making process unless such rule  is
    10  determined to be necessary in accordance with subdivision six of section
    11  two hundred two of this article.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.