At its July 18 meeting, the Government Operations Interim Committee discussed recodification of Utah Code Title 63. Title 63, State Affairs in General, is the title that contains the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the Administrative Procedures Act, and the Government Records Access and Management Act, to name a few. The proposal calls for these chapters to be moved to a new Title 63G. Other chapters will be moved to other titles.
Staff from Legislative Research and General Counsel indicated that the recodification was needed because Title 63 is running out of available chapter numbers.
Staff expects the bill to exceed 1,500 pages. The bill will include almost all of the chapters from Title 63 as well as all sections from elsewhere in the Utah Code that refer to these titles. Staff indicated that the Utah Code contains 639 references to the Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act alone. Staff anticipates that the bill will only address the recodification and related reference changes. Staff does not plan to make any changes to statutory text other than the references or the most minor technical corrections.
This legislation is significant to all regulatory agencies. Agencies that reference statutes currently within Title 63 will have to file nonsubstantive changes to update the references. The May 1, 2007, edition of the Utah Administrative Code contains over 1,313 references to Title 63.
The Government Operations Interim Committee minutes and meeting audio are available at http://le.utah.gov/asp/interim/Commit.asp?Year=2007&Com=INTGOC. Questions about the recodification as it relates to the Rulemaking Act may be referred to Ken Hansen (801-538-3777).