WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 127

CHAPTER 127

(Senate Bill 7)

AN ACT concerning

State Regulations - Opportunity for Public
Comment on Proposed Regulations

FOR the purpose of requiring that a unit of State government
provide a public comment period of a certain duration before
that unit may adopt a proposed regulation; altering the
period which a promulgating unit must delay in adopting a
regulation when the Joint Committee on Administrative,
Executive, and Legislative Review requests a period of
further review, to reflect the required period for public
comment; and making certain stylistic changes.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Government
Section 10-lll(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Government

10-111.

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this
section, a unit may not adopt a proposed regulation until:

(i) after submission of the proposed regulation
to the Committee for preliminary review under § 10-110 of this
subtitle; and

(ii) AFTER THE UNIT HAS PROVIDED A PUBLIC
COMMENT PERIOD OF at least 45 days after [its] THE first
publication OF THE REGULATION in the Register.

(2) (i) If the Committee determines that an
appropriate review cannot reasonably be conducted within 45 days
and that an additional period of review is required, it may delay
the adoption of the regulation by so notifying the promulgating
unit and the Division of State Documents, in writing, prior to
the expiration of the 45-day PUBLIC COMMENT period.

(ii) If notice is provided to the promulgating
unit pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the

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