PRINTER'S NO. 2074
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1370
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY WHITE, SCARNATI, ARGALL, FOLMER, HUTCHINSON,
BROOKS, AUMENT, VULAKOVICH AND STEFANO, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), entitled
"An act relating to Commonwealth documents; providing for the
printing and distribution of administrative regulations;
regulating the adoption, publication, codification and
effectiveness of regulations, statements of policy, and
certain other Commonwealth documents; creating the Joint
Committee on Documents and prescribing its powers and duties;
providing penalties, and making appropriations and repeals,"
in promulgation of regulations and format of documents,
further providing for omission of notice of proposed rule
making.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 204 of the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769,
No.240), referred to as the Commonwealth Documents Law, is
amended to read:
Section 204. Omission of Notice of Proposed Rule Making.--
Except as otherwise provided by regulations promulgated by the
joint committee, an agency may omit or modify the procedures
specified in sections 201 and 202, if the agency finds there is
no fiscal impact (and incorporates the finding and a brief
statement of the reasons therefor in the order adopting the
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administrative regulation or change therein), and:
(1) The administrative regulation or change therein relates
to: (i) military affairs; (ii) agency organization, management
or personnel; (iii) agency procedure or practice; (iv)
Commonwealth property, loans, grants, benefits or contracts; or
(v) the interpretation of a self-executing act of Assembly or
administrative regulation; or
(2) All persons subject to the administrative regulation or
change therein are named therein and are either personally
served with notice of the proposed promulgation, amendment or
repeal or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance
with law; or
(3) The agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the
finding and a brief statement of the reasons therefor in the
order adopting the administrative regulation or change therein)
that the procedures specified in sections 201 and 202 are in the
circumstances impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the
public interest.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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