HB 1969 - DIGEST

     Expands legislative oversight of agency rules.

     Provides that, if the joint administrative rules review committee recommends to the governor that an existing rule be suspended because it does not conform with the intent of the legislature or was not adopted in accordance with all applicable provisions of law, the recommendation establishes a rebuttable presumption in a proceeding challenging the validity of the rule that the rule is invalid.  The burden of demonstrating the validity of the rule is then on the adopting agency.