California Senate Bill SB514 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 514INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Anderson FEBRUARY 26, 2015 An act to amend Section 11344.1 of the Government Code, relating to administrative procedures. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 514, as introduced, Anderson. California Regulatory Notice Register. Existing law 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 the office to provide for the publication of the California Regulatory Notice Register and to include specified information in the register, including notices of proposed action prepared by regulatory agencies, a summary of regulations filed with the Secretary of State, and a summary of regulation decisions issued, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that law. 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. Section 11344.1 of the Government Code is amended to read: 11344.1. The office shall do all of the following: (a) Provide for the publication of the California Regulatory Notice Register, which shall be an official publication of the State of California and which shall contain the following: (1) Notices of proposed action prepared by regulatory agencies, subject to the notice requirements of this chapter, and which have been approved by the office. (2) A summary of all regulations filed with the Secretary of State in the previous week. (3) Summaries of all regulation decisions issued in the previous week detailing the reasons for disapproval of a regulation, the reasons for not filing an emergency regulation, and the reasons for repealing an emergency regulation. The California Regulatory Notice Register shall also include a quarterly index of regulation decisions. (4) Material that is required to be published under Sections 11349.5, 11349.7, and 11349.9. (5) Determinations issued pursuant to Section 11340.5. (b) Establish the publication dates and manner and form in which the California Regulatory Notice Register shall be prepared and published and ensure that it is published and distributed in a timely manner to the presiding officer and rules committee of each house of the Legislature and to all subscribers. (c) Post on its  website,   Internet Web site,  on a weekly basis: (1) The California Regulatory Notice Register. Each issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register on the office's  website   Internet Web site  shall remain posted for a minimum of 18 months. (2) One or more Internet  Web site  links to assist the public to gain access to the text of regulations proposed by state agencies.