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Senate Study Bill 3096

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 17A.4, Code Supplement 2003, is amended
  1  2 by adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  1A.  A proposed rule or rule filed without
  1  4 notice which may have an adverse impact on small businesses
  1  5 must be accompanied by an economic impact statement.  The
  1  6 statement shall be published in the Iowa administrative
  1  7 bulletin along with the rule.  The statement shall include all
  1  8 of the following:
  1  9    (1)  An identification and estimate of the number of small
  1 10 businesses subject to the rule.
  1 11    (2)  The projected reporting, recordkeeping, and other
  1 12 administrative costs required for compliance with the rule,
  1 13 including the type of professional skills necessary for
  1 14 preparation of the report or record.
  1 15    (3)  A statement of the probable effect of the rule on
  1 16 impacted small businesses.
  1 17    (4)  A description of any less intrusive or less costly
  1 18 alternative methods of achieving the purpose of the rule.
  1 19    Sec. 2.  Section 17A.4A, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
  1 20 amended to read as follows:
  1 21    1.  An agency shall issue a regulatory analysis of a
  1 22 proposed rule that complies with subsection 2, paragraph "a",
  1 23 if, within thirty-two seventy days after the published notice
  1 24 of proposed rule adoption, a written request for the analysis
  1 25 is submitted to the agency by the administrative rules review
  1 26 committee, or the administrative rules coordinator, at least
  1 27 twenty-five persons signing the request, or by an organization
  1 28 representing at least twenty-five such persons.  An agency
  1 29 shall issue a regulatory analysis of a proposed rule that
  1 30 complies with subsection 2, paragraph "b", if the rule would
  1 31 have a substantial impact on small business and if, within
  1 32 thirty-two seventy days after the published notice of proposed
  1 33 rule adoption, a written request for analysis is submitted to
  1 34 the agency by the administrative rules review committee, the
  1 35 administrative rules coordinator, at least twenty-five persons
  2  1 signing that request who each qualify as a small business, or
  2  2 by an organization representing at least twenty-five such
  2  3 persons.  If a rule has been adopted without prior notice and
  2  4 an opportunity for public participation in reliance upon
  2  5 section 17A.4, subsection 2, the written request for an
  2  6 analysis that complies with subsection 2, paragraph "a" or
  2  7 "b", may be made within seventy days of publication of the
  2  8 rule.
  2  9    Sec. 3.  Section 17A.4A, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph
  2 10 1, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  2 11    Upon receipt by an agency of a timely request for a
  2 12 regulatory analysis, which is received prior to the adoption
  2 13 of the rule, the agency shall extend the period specified in
  2 14 this chapter for each of the following until at least twenty
  2 15 days after publication in the administrative bulletin of a
  2 16 concise summary of the regulatory analysis:  
  2 17                           EXPLANATION
  2 18    This bill requires that every proposed rule or rule filed
  2 19 without notice that has an adverse impact on small business be
  2 20 accompanied by an economic impact statement outlining the
  2 21 nature of that impact.  The bill also expands the time frame
  2 22 for requesting a regulatory analysis from 32 to 70 days and
  2 23 allows 25 interested persons, or a group representing 25
  2 24 interested persons, to request the analysis.  
  2 25 LSB 6445SC 80
  2 26 jr/gg/14
     

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