Agency Resources & Forms

For the complete guide on how to write an administrative rule in the state of Utah, please see:

• Rulewriting Manual for Utah
• Rulewriting Manual for Utah (Downloadable PDF)

• Emergency Rule Template
• Expedited Rule Template
• Standard CPR Template
• Standard Five Year Review Template
• Standard Five Year Extension Template
• Standard Nonsubstantive Change Template
• Standard Proposed Rule Template

• Video - How to Complete the Standard Proposed Rule Form
• Video - How to Complete the Standard Nonsubstantive Change Form
• Video - How to Complete the Standard Five Year Review Form
• Video - How to Complete the Emergency Rule Form

Training and forms for completing the fiscal analysis for an administrative rule:

Online help:

• Fiscal Analysis Checklist
• Common Pitfalls in a Fiscal Analysis

Downloads:

• GOMB Regulatory Impact Analysis Training
• GOMB Fiscal Analysis Excel Calculator Tool
• GOMB Fiscal Analysis Step-by-Step Guide
  • For help knowing which filing type is appropriate for your filing, please see our eRules Help & FAQ page.

Prefiling is an optional step that allows agencies to submit a draft of their rule and rule analysis to the Office for a formatting and style review similar to the one seen during the filing process.

To prefile, send a draft of the rule text, analysis form, or both to ruleprefilings@utah.gov. 

Visit Prefiling Administrative Rules for more information on the prefiling process.

• Filing Time Frames for Rulemaking & Publishing

• Agency Access Form
• Instructions - Agency Access Form
• Video - Petition for Access

• Video - How to File a Proposed Rule

The Utah Rulemaking Act, Title 63G, Chapter 3, requires a 30-day comment period, beginning the day after publication in the Utah State Bulletin, for proposed rules.  Comments may be taken up to 113 days after publication.  There is an additional seven-day waiting period to consider comment and then the rule can be made effective.  The effective date can be the 38th day publication up to 120 days.  After 120 days if the rule has not been made effective, the rule lapses.  No change is made to the Administrative Code.

Once a rule has made its way through the publication, public comment and review process, it can be made effective.

An effective date MUST be filed in eRules for the rule to become effective.

The final state of a rule filing is for the rule to be codified. Codified law refers to the rules and regulations that have been collected, restated, and written down for the purpose of providing civil order to a society. 

'Current Rules' that have been codified (code) can be found by clicking the 'Code' menu button at the top of our website.

A list of administrative rule filings that have been made effective, but not yet codified, is available online for review.

Utah legislative code 63G-3-305 requires that "Each agency shall review each of its rules within five years after the rule's original effective date or within five years after the filing of the last five-year review, whichever is later"

Agencies may review five-year review due dates for their rules at the Office of Administrative Rules Dashboard.

Five-Year Review Filing Forms:

• Five-Year Notice of Review and Statement of Continuation;
• Five-Year Review Extension;