ADN by Richard Mauer: The Senate on Saturday grabbed a modest, slow-moving bill encouraging petroleum drilling in the state’s Interior, boosted it to the top of its agenda and stuffed it with a key piece of the oil tax reform it had been unable to pass in a much larger bill.
| Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson Co-Sponsors: Rep. Lynn, Rep. Costello, Rep. Kawasaki, Rep. Kerttula, Rep. Johnson, Rep. Tuck |
“An Act relating to fiscal notes for bills directing or resulting in the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations, and to the notice required for the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation; and providing for an effective date.”
Posted: April 10, 2012 : vSCS CSHB 216(STA) – 27-LS0701-L
Bill Version: SCS CSHB 216(STA) Status: Await Transmit To Gov : 2012-04-14 Contact: Sheila Finkenbinder, 465-6887
HB 216 will accomplish two goals relating to changes to state regulations; increasing the speed with which regulations are written, and describing in plain, easy-to-understand language all regulations that are adopted, amended or repealed.
Legislators and the public have often been frustrated by the fact that months, or even years, sometimes pass between the time that a bill is passed by the legislature and the time the regulation is implemented. The result is; Alaska residents, businesses and legislators are confused about what the change means. As an example: as we were looking at the governor’s House Bill 110, on oil taxes, we didn’t have proof of what regulations were currently being enforced because the ACES regulations hadn’t even been written – three years after we passed the legislation…. (Read more here….)
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