PRINTER'S NO. 1340
No. 1134 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY MILLER AND HONAMAN, MAY 24, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 24, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), entitled
2 "An act relating to Commonwealth documents; providing for the
3 printing and distribution of administrative regulations;
4 regulating the adoption, publication, codification and
5 effectiveness of regulations, statements of policy, and
6 certain other Commonwealth documents; creating the Joint
7 Committee on Documents and prescribing its powers and duties;
8 providing penalties, and making appropriations and repeals,"
9 providing for the republication, at length, of certain
10 proposed rules or regulations when the same are finally
11 adopted.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 201, act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769,
15 No.240), known as the "Commonwealth Documents Law," is amended
16 to read:
17 Section 201. Notice of Proposed Rule Making; Republication
18 at Length.--(a) Except as provided in section 204 an agency
19 shall give, in the manner provided in section 405 (relating to
20 additional contents of temporary supplements) public notice of
21 its intention to promulgate, amend or repeal any administrative
22 regulation. Such notice shall include:
23 (1) The text of the proposed administrative regulation,
1 except any portions thereof omitted pursuant to section 407
2 (relating to matter not required to be published), prepared in
3 such a manner as to indicate the words to be added or deleted
4 from the presently effective text thereof, if any.
5 (2) A statement of the statutory or other authority under
6 which the administrative regulation or change therein is
7 proposed to be promulgated.
8 (3) A brief explanation of the proposed administrative
9 regulation or change therein.
10 (4) A request for written comments by any interested person
11 concerning the proposed administrative regulation or change
12 therein.
13 (5) Any other statement required by law.
14 (b) Whenever an agency finally adopts a proposed rule or
15 regulation more than one year after the proposed rule or
16 regulation was published pursuant to subsection (a), the agency
17 shall instruct the Legislative Reference Bureau to republish, at
18 length, the entire rule or regulation as finally adopted.
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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