MN HF936

State agencies would be prohibited from adopting or amending administrative rules unless a cost-benefit analysis demonstrates that total projected benefits exceed total projected costs, with costs and benefits expressed in dollar terms over a five-year period

Agencies must publish preliminary cost-benefit analyses with proposed rules and final analyses with adoption notices, including all documentation, assumptions, methods, and data on a public website in machine-readable format

The Office of Administrative Hearings would develop standardized analytic methods conforming to best practices, and courts could declare rules invalid if the final cost-benefit analysis is "significantly deficient"

Agencies must notify legislative committee chairs and ranking minority members by email when adopting exempt rules, good cause rules, or expedited rules

The bill removes existing requirements for agencies to separately itemize probable compliance costs and costs of not adopting proposed rules, consolidating these into the new cost-benefit analysis framework