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The Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee (ARRC) met on Monday, September 20, 2010.  As part of the agenda, the ARRC followed-up on the use, in statute and rule, of the phrase “liberally construed”. Three interim committees — Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment; Health and Human Services; and Workforce Services and Community and Economic Development — responded to the ARRC’s request

At its November 24, 2009, meeting, the Administrative Rules Review Committee (ARRC) began looking at the phrase “liberally construed” as it is used in statute and rule.  Rep. Becky Lockhart raised this issue because she had noticed the phrase in a Parks and Recreation rule (Section R651-700-3) and wanted to know what it meant.  Legislative staff reported that the phrase

Utah’s Administrative Rules Review Committee has scheduled its next meeting for January 11, 2010.  The agenda indicates that the committee will: continue its discussion about the use of the phrase “liberally construed” in statutes and rules; take up two pieces of legislation:  a bill by Rep. Lockhart entitled, “Department of Human Services – Review and Oversight”; and the committee’s annual

Staff to the Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee distributed an e-mail on Friday, November 6, 2009 that contained the following: In its November 24 meeting, the Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee will discuss the use of “liberally construed” in both administrative rule and statute. The discussion will focus on the purpose served by the phrase, under what circumstances it may