Senate File 2268 SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3096) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the request for a regulatory analysis. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 6445SV 80 4 jr/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 17A.4A, subsection 1, Code 2003, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. An agency shall issue a regulatory analysis of a 1 4 proposed rule that complies with subsection 2, paragraph "a", 1 5 if, withinthirty=twoseventy days after the published notice 1 6 of proposed rule adoption, a written request for the analysis 1 7 is submitted to the agency by the administrative rules review 1 8 committee,orthe administrative rules coordinator, at least 1 9 twenty=five persons who are directly and adversely affected by 1 10 the rule signing the request, or by an organization 1 11 representing at least twenty=five such persons. An agency 1 12 shall issue a regulatory analysis of a proposed rule that 1 13 complies with subsection 2, paragraph "b", if the rule would 1 14 have a substantial impact on small business and if, within 1 15thirty=twoseventy days after the published notice of proposed 1 16 rule adoption, a written request for analysis is submitted to 1 17 the agency by the administrative rules review committee, the 1 18 administrative rules coordinator, at least twenty=five persons 1 19 signing that request who each qualify as a small business, or 1 20 by an organization representing at least twenty=five such 1 21 persons. If a rule has been adopted without prior notice and 1 22 an opportunity for public participation in reliance upon 1 23 section 17A.4, subsection 2, the written request for an 1 24 analysis that complies with subsection 2, paragraph "a" or 1 25 "b", may be made within seventy days of publication of the 1 26 rule. 1 27 Sec. 2. Section 17A.4A, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph 1 28 1, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 29 Upon receipt by an agency of a timely request for a 1 30 regulatory analysis, which is received prior to the adoption 1 31 of the rule, the agency shall extend the period specified in 1 32 this chapter for each of the following until at least twenty 1 33 days after publication in the administrative bulletin of a 1 34 concise summary of the regulatory analysis: 1 35 EXPLANATION 2 1 This bill expands the period for requesting a regulatory 2 2 analysis statement for new administrative rules. The current 2 3 period is 32 days from the publication of a notice of intended 2 4 action; the bill expands this period to 70 days. The bill 2 5 also expands the eligible requesters of these analyses by 2 6 allowing 25 persons who are directly and adversely impacted by 2 7 the rule or an organization representing 25 such persons to 2 8 make the demand. 2 9 LSB 6445SV 80 2 10 jr/gg/14