Relating to: requirements for proposed administrative rules that impose costs. (FE)

SB 979 modifies state rules for reviewing proposed regulations that could impose significant costs. It lowers the cost threshold triggering a review from $10 million to $4 million over two years for businesses, local governments, and individuals. The bill specifically prevents agencies from avoiding this review by splitting a single rule into multiple rules or creating interdependent rules on the same topic. Agencies must halt work on rules exceeding the threshold or revise them to reduce costs, requiring a new economic analysis before proceeding. This directly affects state agencies creating regulations and the entities subject to those rules.