HB2491 Summary

• Allows the Administrative Rules Oversight Committee to prepare and file dissent letters expressing disagreement with statutes, rules, agency practices, or substantive policy statements that are duplicative, onerous, inconsistent with legislative intent, or beyond an agency's statutory authority.

• Requires the Secretary of State to publish dissent letters filed by the committee alongside corresponding rules in the Arizona Administrative Code and Register.

• Expands the Governor's Regulatory Review Council from six to eight members, increasing the number of appointments from the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House from one to two members each.

• Updates the council member compensation language from "two hundred dollars" to "$200" for clarity and adds "vice chairperson" as the proper title.

• Adds dissent letters to the permanent records maintained by the Secretary of State alongside rules, preambles, and economic impact statements.