Bill Text: NY A09643 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to increasing the revised rule public comment period from thirty days to forty-five days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - signed chap.408 [A09643 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09643-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9643 IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to increasing the revised rule public comment period from thirty days to forty-five days The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of section 202 of the 2 state administrative procedure act, as amended by chapter 396 of the 3 laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Except with respect to any rule defined in subparagraph (ii) of 5 paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section one hundred two of this 6 chapter, prior to the adoption of a rule, an agency shall submit a 7 notice of revised rule making to the secretary of state for publication 8 in the state register for any proposed rule which contains a substantial 9 revision. The public shall be afforded an opportunity to submit comments 10 on the revised text of a proposed rule. Unless a different time is spec- 11 ified in statute, the notice of revised rule making must appear in the 12 state register at least [thirty] forty-five days prior to the adoption 13 of the rule. The notice of revised rule making shall indicate the last 14 date for submission of comments on the revised text of the proposed 15 rule, which, unless a different time is specified in statute, shall be 16 not less than [thirty] forty-five days after the date of publication of 17 such notice. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13524-02-7