Tennessee § 4-5-213 Report of department's chapters - Certification of report

Tennessee Statutes

§ 4-5-213 — Report of department's chapters - Certification of report

(a)For the purposes of this section:

(1)"Chapter" means the grouping of rules in the secretary of state's numbering system that follows the entity control number and division, if any, but is before the individual rule number; and (2) "Department" means an administrative department of state government included in § 4-3-101 or any other agency not administratively attached to an administrative department.

(b)By December 1, 2023, and every eight (8) years thereafter, a department with rules promulgated and published on the secretary of state's website pursuant to § 4-5-220 , or with an administratively attached agency with rules promulgated and published on the secretary of state's website pursuant to § 4-5-220 , shall submit a report of the department's chapters in effect as of July 1 of

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(a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Chapter" means the grouping of rules in the secretary of state's numbering system that follows the entity control number and division, if any, but is before the individual rule number; and (2) "Department" means an administrative department of state government included in § 4-3-101 or any other agency not administratively attached to an administrative department. (b) By December 1, 2023, and every eight (8) years thereafter, a department with rules promulgated and published on the secretary of state's website pursuant to § 4-5-220 , or with an administratively attached agency with rules promulgated and published on the secretary of state's website pursuant to § 4-5-220 , shall submit a report of the department's chapters in effect as of July 1 of the year that the report is due to the chair of the government operations committee of the senate and the chair of the government operations committee of the house of representatives. The report includes: (1) A brief description of the department's operations that each chapter affects; (2) For each rule in a chapter, the rule's administrative history, including, but not limited to, the original date the rule was promulgated and the date the rule was last amended; (3) A determination of whether each rule in the chapter should: (A) Be amended or repealed; (B) Be reviewed further; or (C) Continue in effect without amendment; and (4) A determination of whether each rule in the chapter adheres to current state and federal law, to court rulings, and to any other standards that affect the rule. (c) The department shall certify the report submitted under this section. If a department intentionally makes a false statement in the report, then the government operations committee of the senate and the government operations committee of the house of representatives, meeting jointly or separately, may vote to request the general assembly to repeal a rule, or suspend any or all of the department's rulemaking authority for any reasonable period of time or with respect to any particular subject matter, by legislative enactment.

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