HB2491

THE CONTEXT: The Administrative Procedures Act (APA) is a group of statutes that governs how state agencies do rulemaking ( A. R.

WHAT THE BILL DID: The final vetoed version would authorize a person to file a complaint with the Committee about a statute, rule or practice that contains a rule or substantive policy that is alleged to be duplicative and inconsistent with legislative intent or beyond an agency's statutory authority, require the Secretary of State to prepare and publish a filed dissent letter with the corresponding rule in the code and register, and apply procedures of affixing the time and date of filing documents to the filing of a dissent letter.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to give Arizonans and public officials a defined option for administrative rules oversight committee under state law. It would authorize a person to file a complaint with the Committee about a statute, rule or practice that contains a rule or substantive policy that is alleged to be duplicative and inconsistent with legislative intent or beyond an agency's statutory authority, and would also require the Secretary of State to prepare and publish a filed dissent letter with the corresponding rule in the code and register, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.