BILL NUMBER: AB 2652	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Niello

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to regulations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2652, as introduced, Niello. Administrative regulations:
legislative review.
   Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, 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.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the Office of Administrative Law to
submit copies of proposed regulations to the appropriate policy
committee in each house of the Legislature and that would require the
policy committees to conduct a hearing for the purpose of reviewing
the proposed regulation.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the Office of Administrative Law to
submit copies of proposed regulations to the appropriate policy
committee in each house of the Legislature and that would require the
policy committees to conduct a hearing for the purpose of reviewing
the proposed regulation.