The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 2 V.S.A. § 205)
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§ 205. Standing committees; administrative rulemaking delegation
(a) Whenever a standing committee introduces or amends proposed legislation which delegates
rulemaking authority to a State agency, the committee shall express in the legislation
and, to the greatest extent possible, the intent of the legislation and the scope
of the rulemaking authority being delegated. For all such proposed legislation, the
committee shall make a determination, and express such determination in the legislation,
as to whether such rulemaking delegation contemplates the adoption of routine technical
rules or major substantive rules.
(b) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Major substantive rules” means rules that require the exercise of significant agency
discretion or interpretation in drafting, or, because of their subject matter or anticipated
impact, are reasonably expected to result in a significant increase in the cost of
doing business, a significant reduction in property values, the loss or significant
reduction of government benefits or services, the imposition of State mandates on
units of local governments, or other serious burdens on the public or units of local
government.
(2) “Routine technical rules” means procedural rules that establish standards of practice
or procedure for the conduct of business with or before an agency, and any other rules
that are not major substantive rules. Routine technical rules include forms prescribed
by an agency, but do not include fees established by an agency, except fees established
or amended by agency rule that are below a cap or within a range established by statute. (Added 2001, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 54.)