MN SF261

Requires agencies to determine if proposed rules will cost more than $10,000 annually for any person or entity to comply with before the hearing record closes or record submission to administrative law judge.

Rules exceeding the $10,000 cost threshold cannot take effect until approved by the legislature through enactment of a new law, subject to administrative law judge review and approval of the agency's cost determination.

Exempts rules from legislative approval requirement if the legislature has appropriated sufficient funding for compliance costs, if the rule implements a specific federal statutory or regulatory mandate, or if the rule is adopted under alternative rulemaking procedures.

Allows administrative law judges to permit severable portions of rules that do not exceed the $10,000 threshold to take effect without legislative approval when other portions exceed the threshold.

Repeals Minnesota Statutes section 14.127 and amends section 14.19 to extend the 180-day rulemaking deadline exclusion to include time spent awaiting legislative approval under the new section 14.1271.