HB 5799 Summary

• Requires agencies proposing rules with disproportionate impact on small businesses to reduce economic impact through measures such as differing compliance requirements, simplified reporting, performance standards, or exemptions.

• Establishes small business classifications by full-time employees (0-9, 10-49, 50-249) that agencies may use when reducing rule impacts.

• Exempts rules required by federal law from small business impact reduction requirements if the agency does not impose standards more stringent than federal law.

• Replaces references to "office of regulatory reform" with "state office of administrative hearings and rules" throughout the administrative procedures act.

• Requires regulatory impact statements to include 25 detailed elements covering compliance costs, small business impacts, alternatives to regulation, and benefits analysis before public hearings on proposed rules.

• Takes effect only if House Bill 5802 is enacted into law.