MN HF53

Agencies may adopt, amend, suspend, or repeal rules only pursuant to specific authority delegated by law, effective July 1, 2019, and applies to rules adopted on or after that date.

Reduces the threshold for requiring a public hearing on expedited rules from 100 people to 25 people requesting a hearing, effective July 1, 2019, for rules proposed on or after that date.

Requires each agency to submit an obsolete rules report by December 1, 2019, listing all current grants of rulemaking authority by law, including citations to applicable law and current rules adopted under that authority.

Grants of rulemaking authority not cited in the required obsolete rules report are presumed invalid for purposes of adopting future rules.

Agency must describe whether each grant of authority complies with the requirement that rules be adopted only under specific grants of rulemaking authority.