Regulatory Oversight Amendments

Added and renumbered definitions for key terms including 'Government requestor', 'Harm', 'Personal qualifications', 'Regulated occupation', 'State certification', 'State registration', and 'Sunrise review'.

Requires the Office of Professional Licensure Review to document and justify the basis for decisions when reviewing occupational regulations, including specific criteria for assessing harm severity, probability, and permanence.

Mandates that agencies conducting rulemaking analyze fiscal impacts on small businesses and consider less burdensome alternatives if negative impacts are expected.

Requires agencies to submit proposed rules with fiscal impacts exceeding $1 million statewide or $250,000 to a single person for review by appropriations committees.

Creates a new process allowing individuals to petition the office to repeal or modify occupational regulations, with a 90-day response requirement and a 180-day window to file court appeals if the office fails to act.

Adjusted rulemaking timelines and requirements for public comment periods, effective dates, and legislative review of rules with significant fiscal impact.

Added new Section 13-1b-101 defining key terms including 'government requestor', 'harm', 'license', 'newly regulate', 'occupation', 'office', 'periodic review', 'personal qualifications', 'regulated occupation', 'state certification', 'state registration', and 'sunrise review'.

Added requirement for the office to document and justify its basis for decisions resulting from reviews.

Added process allowing individuals to petition the office to repeal or modify occupational regulations within the office's jurisdiction.

Added appeal process for individuals to challenge the office's decisions after a request to repeal or modify a regulation.

Updated fiscal impact threshold for legislative review of rules from $1 million statewide to $2.5 million for a single person and $7.5 million for a group of persons.

Added Department of Commerce to the list of agencies under the Office of Professional Licensure Review's jurisdiction.

Made technical and conforming changes to align definitions and procedures throughout the bill.

Removed specific dollar thresholds ($1,000,000) for determining substantial fiscal impact, replacing them with broader criteria for evaluating regulations.

Added new criteria for reviewing occupational regulations, including impacts on service barriers, license reciprocity, and healthcare payment systems.

Added requirement for the office to publish a public submission form for individuals to request changes to existing occupational regulations.

Adjusted reporting deadlines and review frequencies, changing from specific years to more flexible periodic review schedules.

The definition of 'substantial fiscal impact' was modified to explicitly include costs on a single business or an individual, ensuring individual financial burdens are considered in fiscal impact assessments.

A new requirement was added prohibiting agencies from making rules with substantial fiscal impact unless the rule is necessary to implement a statute or exercise federally delegated authority.

Minor formatting changes were made to the document structure and line numbering throughout the bill excerpts.

Changed the definition of 'substantial fiscal impact' from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 over a five-year period.

Added specific thresholds for fiscal impact on a single business or individual ($1,000,000) versus a group of persons ($7,500,000).

Modified the fiscal impact review period from five years to three years for certain proposed rules.

Adjusted individual impact threshold from $250,000 to $1,000,000 for triggering review requirements.

Increased the threshold for 'substantial fiscal impact' from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 over a five-year period for certain rule reviews.

Added requirement for the Office of Professional Licensure Review to create a mechanism for gathering public feedback on existing occupational regulations and include that feedback in annual reports.

Renumbered and reorganized definition sections, moving 'Substantive change' from definition 22 to 23 and adjusting numbering for other definitions.

Adjusted reporting deadlines and rule review timelines, including changes to when agencies must submit rules for legislative review based on fiscal impact thresholds.

Updated the deadline for submitting agency rules to the appropriations subcommittee from a three-year threshold to a five-year threshold, with specific dollar limits of $1,000,000 statewide, $250,000 to a single person, or $7,500,000 to a group of persons.

Reorganized the numbering of duties in Section 13-1b-203, renumbering subsection (4) to (6) and removing a duplicate (4) label.

Adjusted the rulemaking initiation deadline for 72-16-203 from December 1, 2020 to December 1, 2025, aligning with current legislative schedules.

Clarified the fiscal impact analysis requirements for agencies, ensuring consistency in how costs to businesses and the state are calculated and reported.

Removed the requirement for the office to begin conducting periodic reviews of regulated occupations starting in 2023, while retaining the 10-year review cycle requirement.

Removed the requirement that the office's annual report to the Business and Labor Interim Committee begin in 2024, instead requiring reports to be submitted on or before October 1 without specifying a start year.

Modified the sunset review deadline for occupational applications from November 1 of the current year (if submitted by July 1) to November 1 of the subsequent year (if submitted after July 1).

Corrected formatting errors and removed extraneous text from the definitions section of 63G-3-102, including fixing typos in agency definitions and rule analysis requirements.

Office must publish a public submission form on its website for individuals to request repeal or modification of existing occupational regulations

Office must include gathered public feedback in its written report to the Business and Labor Interim Committee

Added specific criteria for evaluating regulations including severity, probability, and permanence of harm to public welfare

Added cost limits requiring agencies to analyze fiscal impact on businesses, particularly small businesses, before implementing new rules

Individuals can petition the office to repeal or modify regulations, and may challenge the office's decision in court if the office fails to act or disagrees with the outcome

Added new definitions for 'harm', 'newly regulate', 'regulated occupation', 'state certification', 'state registration', and 'sunrise review'

Established specific deadlines for sunrise reviews based on when applications are submitted relative to July 1