S 1134: Requires state agencies to submit proposed rules and regulations intended to implement legislation to the appropriate committee of the legislature for approval; provides that no such rule or regulation shall take effect unless it has been approved by a majority vote of such legislative committee.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1134 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel- opment and Small Business AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in relation to legislative approval of certain proposed rules The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "the regulatory 2 ratification act". 3 § 2. The state administrative procedure act is amended by adding a new 4 section 202-g to read as follows: 5 § 202-g. Legislative approval. In addition to the procedure required 6 pursuant to section two hundred two of this article and prior to the 7 holding of a public hearing, an agency shall submit any proposed rule, 8 intended to implement legislation, to the appropriate committees of the 9 senate and assembly having jurisdiction of the subject matter for their 10 approval. No such rule shall take effect unless it has been approved by 11 a majority vote of each committee to which it has been referred. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03527-01-5