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          Date of Hearing:   April 24, 2002

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                              Darrell Steinberg, Chair

                    AB 1857 (Wayne) - As Amended:  March 19, 2002 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and  
          Professions  Vote:                            12-0 (Consent)

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:               

           SUMMARY  

          This bill clarifies and refines the state's administrative  
          rulemaking procedures based on recommendations of the California  
          Law Review Commission.  Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Requires a state agency maintaining an Internet Web site to  
            include the text of a proposed emergency rulemaking action and  
            the date the proposal was submitted to the Office of  
            Administrative Law.  

          2)Requires rulemaking documents to be posted on an agency's Web  
            site for at least 15 days after the rulemaking process ends.  

          3)Requires an agency, in its statement of reasons for proposing  
            a regulation, to describe its reasons for rejecting any  
            reasonable alternatives.

          4)Makes other technical and clarifying changes.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor absorbable General Fund and special fund costs for  
          agencies to comply with the bill's requirements.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  .  This bill is sponsored by the California Law Review  
          Commission (CLRC), which indicates that the bill is the product  
          of its February 2002 recommendations regarding administrative  
          rulemaking refinements.  These recommendations address  
          rulemaking issues not previously considered by the commission  








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          and encompassed in Chapter 1060, Statutes of 2000 (AB 1822,  
          Wayne).

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081