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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to state government; requiring
3 the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee
4 to publish certain statistics relating to rules
5 in its annual report; directing the Office of
6 Program Policy Analysis and Government
7 Accountability to conduct a study and prepare a
8 report on the cost of state regulation and
9 providing requirements with respect thereto;
10 providing an appropriation; providing an
11 effective date.
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13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15 Section 1. The Joint Administrative Procedures
16 Committee shall publish the following statistics on state
17 rules in their annual report:
18 (a) The number of rules in the Florida Administrative
19 Code.
20 (b) The number of rules noticed in the Florida
21 Administrative Weekly during the preceding year for which a
22 statement of estimated regulatory cost was prepared.
23 (c) The number of rules noticed in the Florida
24 Administrative Weekly during the preceding year for which a
25 statement of estimated regulatory cost was not prepared.
26 (d) The sum of costs contained in statements of
27 estimated regulatory cost prepared for rules noticed in the
28 preceding year.
29 (e) The number of rules noticed for repeal during the
30 preceding year and the estimated cost savings from those
31 repeals.
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1 (6) The number of full-time equivalent employees
2 engaged in regulatory activity.
3 (7) The number of pages in the Florida Administrative
4 Code.
5 Section 2. The Office of Program Policy Analysis and
6 Government Accountability (OPPAGA) is directed to study,
7 through its staff or by contract with a vendor, the costs
8 associated with state regulation. OPPAGA shall submit to the
9 Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of
10 the Senate, no later than January 31, 1999, a report that
11 provides:
12 (1) A comprehensive literature search on regulatory
13 cost studies available at the federal, state, and local level.
14 OPPAGA shall include a bibliography of its findings in the
15 report.
16 (2) Estimates of the total costs of state regulation
17 for fiscal year 1996-1997. Regulatory cost estimates shall be
18 divided into two main categories and reported as follows:
19 (a) Administrative costs, which are the costs incurred
20 by the state to administer regulatory programs. Administrative
21 costs shall be categorized by agency and shall be identified
22 using the General Appropriations Act, agency budgets, and
23 other appropriate data sources.
24 (b) Compliance costs, which are the costs incurred by
25 the private sector and local governments to comply with state
26 regulation. Compliance costs shall be quantified using
27 existing agency data, the General Appropriations Act, existing
28 economic impact statements or statements of estimated
29 regulatory costs, and other appropriate agency data sources,
30 including, but not limited to, federal reports, engineering
31 studies, industry surveys, local government surveys, and other
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1 market data. Compliance cost estimates shall be divided into
2 three main categories:
3 1. Economic regulation: Industry-specific regulations
4 and other regulated activities in industries using economic
5 controls such as price ceilings and service parameters.
6 Economic regulatory costs shall be divided into capital costs
7 and operational costs.
8 2. Social regulation: Regulations designed to achieve
9 goals such as cleaner air, equal employment opportunity, safer
10 work environments, and consumer safety. Social regulatory
11 costs shall be divided into capital costs and operational
12 costs.
13 3. Paperwork costs: Requirements associated with
14 paperwork burdens not directly linked to a social or economic
15 regulatory objective. Paperwork costs shall consist of the
16 operational costs incurred by the private sector or local
17 governments to comply with state paperwork requirements.
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19 Once quantified, a range of regulatory costs associated with
20 the categories specified in subparagraphs (b)1., 2., and 3.,
21 shall be given and then accumulated to arrive at a total cost
22 estimate. The total cost estimate shall be described on an
23 aggregate and a per capita basis. State regulatory costs
24 identified under paragraphs (a) and (b) that are attributable
25 to federally mandated or federally delegated programs should
26 be so noted in the report.
27 (3) Proposed methodologies for estimating state
28 regulatory costs as described in subsection (2) and
29 recommendations to improve the state's rulemaking process to
30 more accurately consider the costs and benefits of proposed
31 rules.
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1 Section 3. The sum of $10,000 is appropriated from the
2 General Revenue Fund to the Office of Program Policy Analysis
3 and Government Accountability for the purpose of conducting
4 the study on the cost of state regulation required by this
5 act.
6 Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
7 law.
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