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During the 2008 General Session, the Legislature passed the following bills that add requirements to the process or will require rulemaking. H.B. 53. Impact of Administrative Rules on Small Businesses. Rep. S. Clark. This bill is in response to another request from the U.S. Small Business Administration. This bill goes beyond H.B. 64 (2007), which required agencies to include in

H.B. 63, “Recodification of Title 63 State Affairs in General”, renumbered 781 sections of statute from Title 63. On April 8, Legislative Research and General Counsel provided a correlation table listing each old citation and the corresponding new citation. This list will be especially useful as agency rulewriters prepare nonsubstantive changes to correct Title 63 references within their agency’s rules.

H.B. 63 recodifies almost all of Title 63. The affected chapters are reassigned to new titles ranging from 63G to 63M. H.B. 63 goes into effect on May 5, 2008. Last summer, the Division informed agencies that H.B. 63 would have a major impact on rules. A review of the rules in effect on January 1, 2008, indicates that 471

The Senate passed 1st Substitute H.B. 53 on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. The bill now goes to the Governor for his signature.

For months, the Administrative Rules Review Committee discussed changes to statutes throughout the Utah Code that assign criminal penalties for violating administrative rules. Today, H.B. 80 was publicly released. H.B. 80, sponsored by Rep. Ben Ferry, is the culmination of those discussions. The bill addresses many of the remaining statutes that were not dealt with in S.B. 138 (2007). A

The Administrative Rules Review Committee (ARRC) gave its unanimous endorsement to a substitute version of Rep. S. Clark’s “Impact of Administrative Rules on Small Businesses” bill. The substitute bill reflects discussions held during prior meetings of the ARRC, as well as negotiations between state agencies and a representative from the Small Business Administration. First Substitute H.B. 53 will require “a

The Administrative Rules Reauthorization bill has been numbered as S.B. 43. Information about S.B. 43 is available on the Legislature’s web site at http://le.utah.gov/~2008/htmdoc/sbillhtm/sb0043.htm.

The Administrative Rules Review Committee has approved its “Administrative Rules Reauthorization” bill. This bill is required by Section 63-46a-11.5. The bill reauthorizes all administrative rules except: Rule R722-300 — Concealed Firearm Permit Rule — from Public Safety, Law Enforcement and Technical Services, Criminal Identification; and Rule R525-6 — Prohibited Items and Devices — from Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental

About six months ago, the Division of Administrative Rules first learned of plans to recodify Title 63 — the Title of the Utah Code that contains the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the Utah Administrative Procedures Act, and the Government Records Access and Management Act, to name a few. The recodification bill has finally been numbered as H.B. 63. H.B. 63

On November 27, Rep. S. Clark presented his “Impact of Administrative Rules on Small Businesses” bill to the Administrative Rules Review Committee. The result of that discussion was to ask the Division of Administrative Rules to contact state agencies and get feedback on the draft bill, and then to work through any issues identified by state agencies with a representative