HB 25-1107

House Bill 25-1107 in Colorado changes how state departments create and review their rules. It now requires a cost-benefit analysis for every new rule or change to an existing one, including those related to licenses and permits, which previously were exempt. The bill also mandates that departments focus on the financial impact of these rules on both the state and its residents during annual reviews. Additionally, it calls for legislative committees to vote on whether they support a department's recommendations regarding these rule changes. Lastly, each department must report how much revenue was generated from permit and license fees in the previous year. Since the bill has been signed into law, these requirements are now official state policy.

Official Summary

The bill modifies the existing process by which principal departments of the state, including agencies and officials within each principal department of the state, adopt and annually review their rules by making the following changes: Requiring that a cost-benefit analysis be performed for each proposed new rule or amendment of an existing rule; Removing an exception that exempted rules relating to orders, licenses, permits, adjudication, or rules affecting the direct reimbursement of vendors or providers with state money from a cost-benefit analysis; Requiring, in each principal department's review of its rules, an emphasis on the cost burden of the rule on the state and its residents; Requiring legislative committees of reference to take a recorded vote on whether to support or modify the principal department's recommendations included in the department's report on the results of its mandatory review of rules as presented to the committee in the departmental regulatory agenda; and Requiring each principal department to include, in its department regulatory agenda distributed to legislative committees of reference, a report on the revenue generated in the previous fiscal year from permit and license fees for which the amount of the fee is determined by rule.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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