BILL NUMBER: SB 1237	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Bates

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 11340.1 of the Government Code, relating
to state government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1237, as introduced, Bates. State government: regulations.
   Existing law, for the purpose of reducing and improving
administrative regulations, establishes an Office of Administrative
Law to review adopted regulations.
   This bill would make several nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 11340.1 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11340.1.  (a) The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the
public interest to establish an Office of Administrative Law
 which shall be  charged with the orderly review of
adopted regulations. It is the intent of the Legislature that the
purpose of  such   the  review shall be to
reduce the number of administrative regulations and to improve the
quality of  those  regulations  which
  that  are adopted. It is the intent of the
Legislature that agencies shall actively seek to reduce the
unnecessary regulatory burden on private individuals and entities by
substituting performance standards for prescriptive standards
 wherever   if  performance standards can
be reasonably expected to be as effective and less burdensome, and
that this substitution shall be considered during the course of the
agency rulemaking process. It is the intent of the Legislature that
neither the Office of Administrative Law nor the court should
substitute its judgment for that of the rulemaking agency as
expressed in the substantive content of adopted regulations. It is
the intent of the Legislature that while the Office of Administrative
Law will be part of the executive branch of state government, that
the office work closely with, and upon request report directly to,
the Legislature in order to accomplish regulatory reform in
California.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the California Code
of Regulations made available on the Internet by the office pursuant
to Section 11344 include complete authority and reference citations
and history notes.