Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota Senate Bill SF3495 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to administrative procedure; requiring legislative approval and the
3	3	1.3 governor's signature for rules to become effective; amending Minnesota Statutes
4	4	1.4 2024, sections 14.18, subdivision 1; 14.38, subdivision 1; proposing coding for
5	5	1.5 new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 14.
6	6	1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
7	7	1.7 Section 1. [14.1265] LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY OVER RULE ADOPTION.
8	8	1.8 Subdivision 1.Rule effective after ratification.A proposed rule is not effective until
9	9	1.9the rule is ratified.
10	10	1.10 Subd. 2.Vote.Ratification occurs upon the signature of the governor on a law passed
11	11	1.11by the legislature approving the rule within one year of the publication of the notice of
12	12	1.12adoption of the rule in the State Register under section 14.18; 14.27; 14.389, subdivision
13	13	1.133; or 14.3895, subdivision 3.
14	14	1.14 Subd. 3.Exception for emergency rules.This section does not apply to rules adopted
15	15	1.15by executive order under section 12.22.
16	16	1.16 Subd. 4.Notice.A notice of ratification must be published in the State Register within
17	17	1.17five days of ratification.
18	18	1.18 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 14.18, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
19	19	1.19 Subdivision 1.Generally.A rule is effective after it has been subjected to all requirements
20	20	1.20described in sections 14.131 to 14.20 and five working days after the notice of adoption
21	21	1.21ratification is published in the State Register unless a later date is required by section 14.126
22	22	1.22or other law or specified in the rule. If the rule adopted is the same as the proposed rule,
23	23	1Sec. 2.
24	24	25-05579 as introduced05/01/25 REVISOR VH/EN
25	25	SENATE
26	26	STATE OF MINNESOTA
27	27	S.F. No. 3495NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
28	28	(SENATE AUTHORS: DRAHEIM, Koran, Lieske and Lucero)
29	29	OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
30	30	Introduction and first reading05/07/2025
31	31	Referred to State and Local Government 2.1publication may be made by publishing notice in the State Register that the rule has been
32	32	2.2adopted as proposed and by citing the prior publication. If the rule adopted differs from the
33	33	2.3proposed rule, the portions of the adopted rule that differ from the proposed rule must be
34	34	2.4included in the notice of adoption together with a citation to the prior State Register
35	35	2.5publication of the remainder of the proposed rule. The nature of the modifications must be
36	36	2.6clear to a reasonable person when the notice of adoption is considered together with the
37	37	2.7State Register publication of the proposed rule, except that modifications may also be made
38	38	2.8that comply with the form requirements of section 14.07, subdivision 7.
39	39	2.9 If the agency omitted from the notice of proposed rule adoption the text of the proposed
40	40	2.10rule, as permitted by section 14.14, subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), the chief administrative
41	41	2.11law judge may provide that the notice of the adopted rule need not include the text of any
42	42	2.12changes from the proposed rule. However, the notice of adoption must state in detail the
43	43	2.13substance of the changes made from the proposed rule, and must state that a free copy of
44	44	2.14the portion of the adopted rule that was the subject of the rulemaking proceeding, not
45	45	2.15including any material adopted by reference as permitted by section 14.07, is available upon
46	46	2.16request to the agency.
47	47	2.17 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 14.38, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
48	48	2.18 Subdivision 1.Original rules.Every rule, regardless of whether it might be known as
49	49	2.19a substantive, procedural, or interpretive rule, which is filed in the Office of the Secretary
50	50	2.20of State as provided in sections 14.05 to 14.28 shall have the force and effect of law five
51	51	2.21working days after its notice of adoption ratification is published in the State Register unless
52	52	2.22a different date is required by statute or a later date is specified in the rule. The secretary
53	53	2.23of state shall keep a permanent record of rules filed with that office open to public inspection.
54	54	2Sec. 3.
55	55	25-05579 as introduced05/01/25 REVISOR VH/EN