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 1        AN ACT concerning access to data.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 5-40 as follows:

 6        (5 ILCS 100/5-40) (from Ch. 127, par. 1005-40)
 7        Sec. 5-40.  General rulemaking.
 8        (a)  In all rulemaking to which Sections 5-45 and 5-50 do
 9    not apply, each agency shall comply with this Section.
10        (b)  Each  agency  shall give at least 45 days' notice of
11    its intended action to the general public.  This first notice
12    period shall commence on the first day the notice appears  in
13    the  Illinois  Register.   The first notice shall include all
14    the following:
15             (1)  The text of the proposed rule, the old and  new
16        materials  of  a  proposed  amendment, or the text of the
17        provision to be repealed.
18             (2)  The specific statutory citation upon which  the
19        proposed  rule,  the proposed amendment to a rule, or the
20        proposed repeal of a rule is based and  by  which  it  is
21        authorized.
22             (3)  A  complete  description  of  the  subjects and
23        issues involved.
24             (3.5)  A descriptive title or other  description  of
25        any published study or research report used in developing
26        the  rule,  the identity of the person who performed such
27        study, and a description of where the public may obtain a
28        copy of any such study or research report. If  the  study
29        was  performed by an agency or by a person or entity that
30        contracted with the agency for  the  performance  of  the
31        study,   the   agency  shall  also  make  copies  of  the
 
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 1        underlying data available to members of the  public  upon
 2        request  if  the  data  are not protected from disclosure
 3        under the Freedom of Information Act.
 4             (4)  For all proposed rules and proposed  amendments
 5        to  rules,  an  initial  regulatory  flexibility analysis
 6        containing a description of the types of small businesses
 7        subject to the rule; a brief description of the  proposed
 8        reporting, bookkeeping, and other procedures required for
 9        compliance  with the rule; and a description of the types
10        of professional skills necessary for compliance.
11             (5)  The time, place, and manner in which interested
12        persons may present their views and  comments  concerning
13        the proposed rulemaking.
14        During  the  first notice period, the agency shall accept
15    from  any  interested  persons  data,  views,  arguments,  or
16    comments. These may, in the  discretion  of  the  agency,  be
17    submitted  either  orally  or in writing or both.  The notice
18    published in the Illinois Register shall indicate the  manner
19    selected by the agency for the submissions.  The agency shall
20    consider all submissions received.
21        The  agency  shall  hold a public hearing on the proposed
22    rulemaking during the first notice period if (i)  during  the
23    first  notice  period, the agency finds that a public hearing
24    would facilitate the submission of views  and  comments  that
25    might  not otherwise be submitted or (ii) the agency receives
26    a request for a public hearing,  within  the  first  14  days
27    after publication of the notice of proposed rulemaking in the
28    Illinois Register, from 25 interested persons, an association
29    representing  at  least 100 interested persons, the Governor,
30    the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules,  or  a  unit  of
31    local  government  that  may  be  affected.   At  the  public
32    hearing, the agency shall allow interested persons to present
33    views  and  comments  on  the  proposed rulemaking.  A public
34    hearing in response to a request for a  hearing  may  not  be
 
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 1    held less than 20 days after the publication of the notice of
 2    proposed rulemaking in the Illinois Register unless notice of
 3    the  public  hearing  is  included  in the notice of proposed
 4    rulemaking. A public hearing on proposed rulemaking  may  not
 5    be  held  less  than  5  days before submission of the notice
 6    required under subsection (c) of this Section  to  the  Joint
 7    Committee on Administrative Rules.  Each agency may prescribe
 8    reasonable  rules  for  the  conduct  of  public  hearings on
 9    proposed  rulemaking  to  prevent  undue  repetition  at  the
10    hearings.  The hearings  must  be  open  to  the  public  and
11    recorded  by  stenographic  or mechanical means. At least one
12    agency representative shall be present during the hearing who
13    is qualified to respond to general questions from the  public
14    regarding the agency's proposal and the rulemaking process.
15        (c)  Each  agency  shall provide additional notice of the
16    proposed rulemaking to the Joint Committee on  Administrative
17    Rules.  The  period  commencing  on the day written notice is
18    received by the Joint Committee shall be known as the  second
19    notice  period  and  shall  expire  45 days thereafter unless
20    before that time the agency  and  the  Joint  Committee  have
21    agreed  to extend the second notice period beyond 45 days for
22    a period not to exceed an additional 45 days  or  unless  the
23    agency  has  received a statement of objection from the Joint
24    Committee or notification from the Joint  Committee  that  no
25    objection  will  be  issued.  The written notice to the Joint
26    Committee shall include (i) the  text  and  location  of  any
27    changes  made  to  the  proposed  rulemaking during the first
28    notice period in a form prescribed by  the  Joint  Committee;
29    (ii) for all proposed rules and proposed amendments to rules,
30    a  final regulatory flexibility analysis containing a summary
31    of issues raised by small businesses during the first  notice
32    period and a description of actions taken on any alternatives
33    to the proposed rule suggested by small businesses during the
34    first  notice  period,  including  reasons  for rejecting any
 
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 1    alternatives not utilized; and (iii) if a written request has
 2    been made by the Joint Committee within 30 days after initial
 3    notice appears in the Illinois Register under subsection  (b)
 4    of  this  Section,  an analysis of the economic and budgetary
 5    effects of the proposed rulemaking. After commencement of the
 6    second notice period, no substantive change may be made to  a
 7    proposed  rulemaking  unless  it  is  made  in response to an
 8    objection or suggestion of the Joint Committee.   The  agency
 9    shall  also  send  a copy of the final regulatory flexibility
10    analysis to each small business that has presented  views  or
11    comments  on  the proposed rulemaking during the first notice
12    period and to any other  interested  person  who  requests  a
13    copy.   The  agency may charge a reasonable fee for providing
14    the copies to cover postage and handling costs.
15        (d)  After the expiration of the  second  notice  period,
16    after notification from the Joint Committee that no objection
17    will  be  issued,  or  after  a  response  by the agency to a
18    statement  of  objections  issued  by  the  Joint  Committee,
19    whichever is applicable, the agency shall file, under Section
20    5-65, a certified copy of each rule, modification, or  repeal
21    of  any  rule  adopted by it.  The copy shall be published in
22    the Illinois Register.  Each  rule  hereafter  adopted  under
23    this   Section  is  effective  upon  filing  unless  a  later
24    effective date is required by statute or is specified in  the
25    rulemaking.
26        (e)  No rule or modification or repeal of any rule may be
27    adopted,  or filed with the Secretary of State, more than one
28    year  after  the  date  the  first  notice  period  for   the
29    rulemaking under subsection (b) commenced.  Any period during
30    which  the  rulemaking  is  prohibited from being filed under
31    Section 5-115 shall not be  considered  in  calculating  this
32    one-year time period.
33    (Source: P.A. 87-823; 88-667, eff. 9-16-94.)

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