Regulations: effective date.

Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, 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. Under existing law, a regulation or an order of repeal becomes effective on the 30th day after it is filed with the Secretary of State. This bill would require an agency, for any regulation that it has identified as having a gross cost of $15,000,000 or more, an increased cost of 5% or more over the cost of an existing regulation, or both, to submit a copy of the rulemaking record for that regulation to the appropriate policy committee in each house of the Legislature when the agency submits the regulation to the office for approval. This bill would require that these regulations take effect on the 180th day after they are filed with the secretary.