SB 6564.E - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/27/02)

     Finds that the Constitution of the state of Washington vests the power to make laws in the legislature.  In order for the legislature to properly carry out its responsibility for establishing new laws, this act revises rule-making requirements to assure that the legislature can carefully review rules that impose significant requirements on citizens before the rules take effect.

     Declares that the adoption of rules described in this act must be made before December 1st of any year, and the rules may not take effect before the end of the regular legislative session in the next year.

     Requires that, within two hundred days of the effective date of a rule of the type described in this act, an agency shall make a good faith effort to notify businesses affected by the rule of the requirements of the rule and how to obtain technical assistance to comply.