HB 139 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

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10/01

HOUSE BILL 139

AN ACT relative to administrative rules proposed by agencies, boards, and commissions regulating occupational licenses.

SPONSORS: Rep. Goulet, Hills 15; Rep. Emerton, Hills 7

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill requires agencies, boards, or commissions which regulate occupational licenses to submit certain statements from organizations representing its licensees when filing a final proposed administrative rule.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0343

10/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT relative to administrative rules proposed by agencies, boards, and commissions regulating occupational licenses.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Administrative Procedure Act; Filing Final Proposal. Amend RSA 541-A:12 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a. For agencies, boards, or commissions responsible for occupational licensing, each final proposal, except where the final proposal readopts a rule without amendment, shall include statements submitted from organizations, associations, societies, or other similar entities briefly summarizing the support, objection, or other comment to the proposed final rule. Such statements shall be signed by an officer of the organization, association, society, or other similar entity, provided that the officer shall be a licensee of the respective agency, board, or commission. Where licensees may be represented by multiple organizations, associations, or societies, the agency, board, or commission shall submit statements from as many organizations, associations, or societies as is practicable.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.