AB 1868: Regulations: legislative notice.

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. Existing law requires an agency to mail a notice of proposed action to specified entities at least 45 days prior to the hearing and close of the public comment period on the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. regulation, and to publish the notice of proposed action in the California Regulatory Notice Register as proposed by the Office of Administrative Law.

This bill would require that the notice of proposed action also be submitted to the Legislature if it the Office of Administrative Law to send a link to an Internet Web site, where this published information is posted, to the appropriate Senate and Assembly policy committee secretaries via electronic mail, if the notice includes particular information relating to economic and cost impacts of the regulation on businesses and private persons.