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Recommendation - SUPPORT
SB2646: This bill requires state agencies to email all legislators notice of proposed administrative rules and to include the economic impact statement with that notice.
Full Analysis
A vote for this bill is a vote to increase legislative awareness and economic transparency around new regulations without adding new mandates on the public.
Key Provisions & Tradeoffs
Requires agencies to email all members of the Legislature at least 25 days before adopting a rule.
Mandates that the economic impact statement be included in the proposed rule notice.
Leaves existing public notice, comment, and oral proceeding provisions intact.
Liberty Analysis
This bill is a modest procedural reform within the state’s Administrative Procedures Act. It does not expand regulatory power or create new mandates on private individuals or businesses. Instead, it changes how notice of proposed rules is distributed: agencies must now email all legislators and must include the economic impact statement in that notice. From a limited-government perspective, this slightly strengthens the legislature’s ability to oversee and, if it chooses, challenge or cabin agency rulemaking, which is generally positive.
From a free-market and sound-money lens, requiring the economic impact statement to be included with the notice pushes agencies to keep economic consequences front and center. While it doesn’t itself cut spending or deregulate, it makes it easier for lawmakers to spot rules that impose significant costs, distort markets, or create unfunded burdens. Any added administrative cost to agencies is very small and confined to internal government process, not shifted onto taxpayers via new fees or onto businesses via new compliance rules.
There are no new penalties, surveillance authorities, or constraints on civil liberties, property rights, or parental rights. The bill simply improves transparency and communication between the executive branch and the legislative branch over delegated regulatory power. Overall, it nudges the system slightly toward greater accountability and economic awareness without meaningful downside, warranting a modestly positive rating.

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