Steve Bartels
- Republican
- Representative
- District 74
Author
Establishes the government reform task force (task force). Provides for members of the task force. Requires the task force to submit a report. Prohibits the consideration of the number or amount of fines or civil penalties imposed on regulated entities by an employee in an agency's evaluation or compensation of the employee. Makes various procedural changes concerning the adoption of administrative rules, including the following: (1) Requires budget agency and office of management and budget review of a regulatory analysis of all proposed rules. (2) Requires a state budget committee review of rules adding or increasing fees, fines, or civil penalties. (3) Requires publication of the text of a proposed rule in the first public comment period and allows a proposed rule to be adopted after one public comment period if no substantive public testimony is received and the rule is not more stringent than applicable federal standards. (4) Replaces various laws granting emergency rulemaking authority with a description of the circumstances when emergency rulemaking (renamed "provisional" rules and "interim" rules) may be used, increases governor and attorney general oversight of provisional or interim rules, and adds a public comment period for interim rules. (5) Reduces from seven to five years the time in which rules need to be readopted to remain effective. (6) Requires agencies to webcast public hearings and allow remote testimony. Prohibits state standards for disposal of coal combustion residuals to be more stringent than federal standards. Allows for certain rules on certain pesticides that are more stringent than federal law. Permits a person to recover attorney's fees if an agency issues an order that is based on an invalid rule or issued without legal authority. Permits an applicant or licensee to recover damages if a professional or occupational licensing agency fails to adopt a rule required to obtain a license. Repeals superseded statutes and makes cross-reference, name, and other conforming changes.
Public Law 249
Signed by the Governor
Signed by the Speaker
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Signed by the President of the Senate
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 536: yeas 66, nays 28
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 513: yeas 29, nays 19
Senator Koch removed as advisor
Senator Pol removed as conferee
CCR # 1 filed in the House
CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
Representative Miller D added as conferee
Representative Campbell removed as conferee
Representative Miller D removed as advisor
Senator Koch added as conferee
Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Koch
Senate conferees appointed: Garten and Pol
Motion to dissent filed
Returned to the House with amendments
House dissented from Senate amendments
House conferees appointed: Bartels and Campbell
House advisors appointed: Miller D, Lehman and DeLaney
Senator Crane added as cosponsor
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 30, nays 18
Senator Johnson added as cosponsor
Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; Roll Call 366: yeas 20, nays 28
Amendment #5 (Walker K) prevailed; voice vote
Amendment #6 (Garten) prevailed; voice vote
Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Senator Koch added as second sponsor
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
Referred to the Senate
Senate sponsor: Senator Garten
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 169: yeas 73, nays 24
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Amendment #1 (Boy) failed; Roll Call 143: yeas 27, nays 64
Representatives Miller D and Jordan added as coauthors
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform
Authored by Representative Bartels
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| Fiscal Note: HB1623.05.ENRS.FN001 |
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