SCS/SB 284 - This act invalidates prior authority of certain executive agencies to promulgate rules to implement the acts of the General Assembly. New rulemaking authority is granted to such agencies as provided in new Section 536.028, RSMo, after the effective date of this act.

SECTION 536.028 - PROVISIONS: An agency shall file a proposed rule with the General Assembly and Secretary of State. The President Pro Tem of the Senate shall forward a copy of the proposed rule to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (Committee). The Committee may hold hearings on such proposed rule and recommend that the General Assembly disapprove and annul such rule if: 1) the rule is substantive in nature; and 2) the rule is not authorized for one or more of the following reasons: a) no statutory authority; b) the rule conflicts with state law; c) the rule is a substantial risk to public health or safety; d) the rule goes beyond the purpose of the statute; e) a change in circumstances has occurred since the authorizing law's enactment; or f) the rule is so arbitrary and capricious as to be unreasonably burdensome.

No rule shall take effect prior to the expiration of thirty legislative days after it is filed with the General Assembly and Secretary of State. Within this time frame, the General Assembly may adopt a concurrent resolution to disapprove and annul such rule. If such resolution is passed within thirty legislative days, the Secretary of State shall not publish the rule until such resolution is signed by the Governor or, if such resolution is vetoed, until the General Assembly has had an opportunity to override the veto. The Secretary of State shall publish the order of rulemaking and a notice of those rules annulled.

The General Assembly may also disapprove proposed rules by bill within the same thirty legislative day period. Finally, the General Assembly is authorized to revoke an existing rule.

If any of the powers of the General Assembly to review or disapprove of and annul proposed rules are found unconstitutional, the General Assembly's grant of rulemaking authority shall invalid.

EMERGENCY RULES (536.025): An emergency rule, while not subject to the above limitations, shall remain in effect until the expiration of thirty legislative days after such rule is filed with the General Assembly and Secretary of State. An emergency rule may be annulled by the General Assembly by concurrent resolution.

GENERAL PROVISIONS (536.016): All agencies shall develop procedures to determine if a proposed rule is necessary to carry out the purposes of the authorizing statute.

The Chapter 536 provisions of this act are identical to those found in SCS/SB 386 & 372.

JAMES KLAHR