Bill > A2578

Introduced Session

This bill would amend the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), which establishes the procedures that executive branch agencies are required to follow when exercising their authority to adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations. Under current law, rule chapters expire seven years following the effective date of the rules, and may be readopted, amended, and repealed by the applicable agency in accordance with the process set forth in the law. Under this bill, the expiration date of rule chapters would be reduced from seven years to five years, and the applicable agency would require legislative approval in order to readopt the rules thereafter. This legislative approval would be in the form of the passage of a concurrent resolution. Under the bill, if the Legislature does not act to pass a concurrent resolution, the rules would expire and the agency would be prohibited from readopting the rules for a period of five years. Under the bill, the change in the chapter expiration date from seven years to five years and the requirement for legislative approval for readoption thereafter would apply to all rules adopted on or after the date of enactment of the bill into law. The bill provides that the Governor may, upon the request of an agency head, within five days after the passage of a concurrent resolution by both Houses of the Legislature, restore the effectiveness of an expired rule as of its expiration date, for a period to be specified by the Governor, in order to effect the readoption of the rule.

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Erik Peterson (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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