Requires state agencies to submit proposed rules and regulations intended to implement legislation to the appropriate committee of the legislature for approval; provides that no such rule or regulation shall take effect unless it has been approved by a majority vote of such legislative committee.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4459--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel-
opment and Small Business -- recommitted to the Committee on Commerce,
Economic Development and Small Business in accordance with Senate Rule
6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to
legislative approval of certain proposed rules
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "the regulatory
2 ratification act".
3 § 2. The state administrative procedure act is amended by adding a new
4 section 202-f to read as follows:
5 § 202-f. Legislative approval. In addition to the procedure required
6 pursuant to section two hundred two of this article and prior to the
7 holding of a public hearing, an agency shall submit any proposed rule,
8 intended to implement legislation, to the appropriate committees of the
9 senate and assembly having jurisdiction of the subject matter for their
10 approval. No such rule shall take effect unless it has been approved by
11 a majority vote of each committee to which it has been referred.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06367-02-8
