SF0127JC001

This amendment narrows the scope of rules subject to legislative review and approval by limiting them to 'major rules' with higher economic impact thresholds, reassigns review responsibilities to the Legislative Service Office, requires an interim study, and modifies the legislative objection process.

• Deletes a previous House amendment (SF0127HS001/A) to the engrossed bill. (Amendment opening statement)
• Adds 'major' before 'administrative' in the bill title and adds language requiring a study and report, plus authorizing additional positions. (Page 1, lines 2 and 5)
• Changes the definition of 'major rule' by removing the reference to 'chief economist of the' and replacing it with a standalone definition that requires significantly higher economic impact thresholds (minimum $1,000,000 annually instead of $100,000) and removes the 'significant changes in social and cultural relations' criterion. (Page 2, lines 1-2 and Page 5, after line 14 (new subsection (h)))
• Systematically inserts the word 'major' before 'rule' throughout the bill to apply the legislative review requirement only to major rules, not all rules. (Page 2, lines 5-21; Page 3, lines 2-20; Page 4, lines 17; Page 5, lines 3, 7, 10)
• Replaces all references to 'chief economist' with 'legislative service office' to shift review responsibilities from the chief economist position to the broader legislative service office. (Page 2, line 6; Page 4, lines 15-16, 20; Page 5, lines 1, 6, 9, 13)
• Changes 'must' to 'shall' for consistency in statutory language. (Page 4, line 7)
• Modifies the regulatory impact analysis requirements by deleting references to subsections (c) and (d) and replacing with only subsection (c). (Page 2, line 14)
• Deletes the reference to W.S. 28-8-103 and changes the amendment method for W.S. 28-9-107 from subsection (a) to creating a new subsection (d). (Page 5, lines 16 and 18)
• Deletes provisions and replaces the legislative objection mechanism with a new process allowing the council, management audit committee, joint interim committee, or any legislator to introduce legislation in the next legislative session to prohibit implementation of major rules after reviewing analysis results. (Page 5, lines 20-23; Page 6, lines 1-10; Page 8, lines 11-18)
• Adds a new Section 4 requiring the management audit committee to conduct a study during the 2025 interim on the Act's relation to existing administrative rule review provisions, with a report due December 1, 2025, and authorizing funding for legislative staff in the 2025 appropriations bill. (Page 8, after line 22)
• Renumbers sections as a result of adding the new interim study requirement, changing former Section 4 to Section 5 and former Section 5 to Section 6. (Page 9, lines 1 and 17; Page 10, line 1)

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