2003 Senate Bill 255 ↩

Senate Roll Call 45: Passed

To increase from 21 days to 90 days the amount of time that the legislature has to act on a bill introduced due to an objection to the rules by the legislative Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR). Under current law, JCAR has 21 days to object to new administrative rules proposed by executive branch agencies and departments. If the committee votes to object to a rule, that freezes its implementation, and causes bills to be placed on the House and Senate legislative calendars to either postpone implementation of the rule for one year, rescind it, or repeal the law authorizing the rule. Then, one of these bills must be passed by both Houses of the legislature within 21 days, and not vetoed by the governor, or the rule goes into effect anyway. The bill would extend this second period to 90 days.