NJ A4409

State agencies must complete a mandatory review of each administrative rule before its seven-year expiration, assessing whether benefits continue to outweigh costs and burdens, and whether the rule remains effective or has become outdated.

Agencies must report review findings to the Governor and Legislature, with notice published in the New Jersey Register at the time of proposed readoption.

All proposed new administrative rules require a regulatory impact analysis considering the need for the rule, consequences, cost-benefit assessment, and where permitted, factors like equity, human dignity, fairness, and distributive impacts.

The regulatory impact analysis for proposed rules must be reported to the Governor and Legislature and published in the New Jersey Register alongside the notice of intended action.

Current law already requires administrative rules to expire every seven years, but this bill adds the mandatory review and impact analysis requirements that do not currently exist.