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 is 2,981 pages long. That equates to about six reams of paper, or one cubic foot.
As reported earlier, H.B. 63 will require agencies throughout state government to correct references to statutes within Title 63. In all, about 430 administrative rules will require changes. The Division will identify rules requiring changes and notify the respective agencies as soon as the bill passes both houses.
Information about H.B. 63 is available on the Legislature’s web site at http://le.utah.gov/~2008/htmdoc/hbillhtm/hb0063.htm.