BILL NUMBER: SB 514	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 11344.1 of the Government Code, relating
to administrative procedures.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 514, as introduced, Anderson. California Regulatory Notice
Register.
   Existing law governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or
repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those
regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law
requires the office to provide for the publication of the California
Regulatory Notice Register and to include specified information in
the register, including notices of proposed action prepared by
regulatory agencies, a summary of regulations filed with the
Secretary of State, and a summary of regulation decisions issued, as
specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
law.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11344.1 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11344.1.  The office shall do all of the following:
   (a) Provide for the publication of the California Regulatory
Notice Register, which shall be an official publication of the State
of California and which shall contain the following:
   (1) Notices of proposed action prepared by regulatory agencies,
subject to the notice requirements of this chapter, and which have
been approved by the office.
   (2) A summary of all regulations filed with the Secretary of State
in the previous week.
   (3) Summaries of all regulation decisions issued in the previous
week detailing the reasons for disapproval of a regulation, the
reasons for not filing an emergency regulation, and the reasons for
repealing an emergency regulation. The California Regulatory Notice
Register shall also include a quarterly index of regulation
decisions.
   (4) Material that is required to be published under Sections
11349.5, 11349.7, and 11349.9.
   (5) Determinations issued pursuant to Section 11340.5.
   (b) Establish the publication dates and manner and form in which
the California Regulatory Notice Register shall be prepared and
published and ensure that it is published and distributed in a timely
manner to the presiding officer and rules committee of each house of
the Legislature and to all subscribers.
   (c) Post on its  website,   Internet Web
site,  on a weekly basis:
   (1) The California Regulatory Notice Register. Each issue of the
California Regulatory Notice Register on the office's 
website   Internet Web site  shall remain posted
for a minimum of 18 months.
   (2) One or more Internet  Web site  links to assist the
public to gain access to the text of regulations proposed by state
agencies.