State government: administrative efficiency.

(1) 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. The act requires each agency that proposes to adopt, amend, or repeal any major regulation, as defined, on or after November 1, 2013, to prepare a standardized economic impact analysis. The act requires an agency that seeks to adopt, amend, or repeal a major regulation to release a notice of proposed action that includes, among other things, the standardized economic impact analysis. The act requires an agency to file with the office, when it files the notice of proposed action, an initial statement of reasons that includes, among other things, the standardized economic impact analysis for each major regulation proposed on or after January 1, 2013. This bill would instead require that the statement of reasons include a standardized impact analysis for each major regulation proposed on or after November 1, 2013. This bill would make various conforming changes to those provisions. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 11346.2 of the Government Code, proposed by AB 1612, to be operative only if AB 1612 and this bill are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2013, and this bill is chaptered last. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.