Providing for review and ongoing rescission of administrative rules

If a chapter has been rescinded under this process, the agency that adopted the chapter shall notify the administrative code editor in writing of the rescission. The administrative rules coordinator may notify the administrative code editor in writing on behalf of the agency. As soon as practicable after receiving such notification, the administrative code editor shall publish notice of the rescission in the bulletin and, no sooner than two weeks after such publication, remove the chapter from the Iowa administrative code. When a chapter of rules becoming effective as a whole is published in the Iowa administrative code, the bill requires the administrative code editor to include the next rescission date of the chapter. For a chapter of rules that most recently became effective as a whole prior to January 1, 2023, the effective date of the chapter shall be deemed January 1, 2023, for purposes of the ongoing rescission process. For a chapter that most recently became effective as a whole on or after January 1, 2023, the date of rescission shall be based on the most recent effective date of the chapter as a whole. The bill authorizes an agency to submit proposed legislation to the general assembly that would modify the applicability of the ongoing rescission process to rules adopted by the agency governing a narrowly specified subject. The bill requires an agency that does so to submit a cost-benefit analysis of the rules affected by the proposed legislation to the general assembly with the proposed legislation and to post the analysis on the agency’s internet site. The bill provides that the next period for the ongoing review of rules by agencies required under current law shall commence January 1, 2027. The bill requires the administrative rules coordinator to establish by July 1, 2025, a process to utilize artificial intelligence technology to review the Iowa administrative code on an ongoing basis and identify rules that are outdated, redundant, or inconsistent or incompatible with statute or other rules. The bill provides for an annual summary of the results of this process to be submitted to the general assembly and relevant agencies.