Rulemaking Process – The Basics
What is Rulemaking?
Rulemaking is a specific authority that the Utah Legislature grants to an agency. When an agency is granted this authority, it can make administrative rules that have the full power of law.
Once an agency has been granted rulemaking authority, it can then create new rules, or amend or repeal existing rules. This process is governed by the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act (Title 63G, Chapter 3).
The Office of Administrative Rules assists agencies in filing their rules and rule changes, publishes those changes in the Utah State Bulletin, as well as assists the public with research.
An agency decides to make a change to a rule or make a new rule. This might be because the agency received comments from the public or because of new legislation, among other things.