HB 82 Summary

• The Legislative Reference Service must review rules from state boards and commissions regulating professions where controlling members are active market participants, to determine if rules significantly lessen competition and whether they follow a clearly articulated state policy to displace competition.

• If the Legislative Reference Service determines a rule may significantly lessen competition, it must certify its findings to the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review, which must then meet and approve, disapprove, disapprove with suggested amendment, or allow withdrawal of the rule.

• Rules certified by the Legislative Reference Service that the committee fails to act on shall not become effective and must remain on the committee's agenda at each subsequent meeting until disposed of.

• Boards and commissions may voluntarily submit previously adopted rules for the same Legislative Reference Service review and committee consideration, with committee action required within 45 days of certification.

• The Legislative Reference Service may charge boards and commissions a fee in addition to existing fees to recover costs of conducting these reviews.