HB 5817 — Administrative procedure: rules; process for promulgating rules; modify. Amends secs. 39 & 45 of 1969 PA 306 (MCL 24.239 & 24.245) & adds secs. 47a & 67c. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5818'26

HB-5817, As Passed House, June 9, 2026 HOUSE BILL NO.

of RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 regulatory reinvention.

The office of regulatory reinvention shall issue a written or electronic response to the request for rule-making rulemaking that specifically addresses whether the request for rulemaking has RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 appropriate and necessary policy and legal bases for approving the request for rule-making.approval.

If the legislative service bureau determines that the rule is proper in form, classification, and arrangement, and the regulatory impact analysis RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 report is accurate, not later than 30 business days after the proposed rule and regulatory impact analysis report are submitted under this subsection, the legislative service bureau shall promptly issue a certificate of approval.

The office may approve a proposed rule if it considers the proposed rule to be legal and appropriate.or regulatory impact RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 analysis report, or both, to determine whether the errors or inaccuracies were corrected and issue a certificate of approval under this subsection.

If the legislative service bureau returns the proposed rule to the agency, RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 and the agency resubmits the proposed rule with changes, the legislative service bureau has 30 business days to review the resubmitted proposed rule and issue a certificate of approval under this subsection.

The office RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 shall transmit by notice of transmittal to the committee for a nonmajor rule or to the legislature for a major rule, as applicable, copies of the rule, the agency reports containing that contain the request for rule-making, rulemaking, a copy of the regulatory impact statement required under subsection (4), a copy of the regulatory impact analysis report required under subsection (5), and certificates the certificate of approval from issued by the legislative service bureau and the office.

(4) (3) Except as provided in subsection (6), (8), an agency shall prepare and include with a notice of transmittal under subsection (2) (3) the request for rule-making rulemaking and the response from the office, a small business impact statement prepared under section 40, and a regulatory impact statement required under this subsection, and the regulatory impact analysis RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 report required under subsection (5).

RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 (k) A demonstration that the proposed rule is necessary and suitable to achieve its purpose in proportion to the burdens it the proposed rule places on individuals.

(t) A statement describing that describes the manner in which the agency reduced the economic impact of the rule on small businesses or a statement describing the reasons such that a RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 reduction was not feasible.

RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 (a) A statement of need.

RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 (7) (5) The For a nonmajor rule, the committee shall electronically transmit to the senate fiscal agency and the house fiscal agency a copy of each proposed nonmajor rule, and regulatory impact statement, filed with and regulatory impact analysis report transmitted to the committee under a notice of transmittal under subsection (3) and a copy of the agenda identifying that identifies the proposed nonmajor rules to be considered by the committee.

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(1) Subject to subsection (2), not later than 90 calendar days after the legislature receives a notice of RMH H03296'25_HB5817_INTR_1H03296'25_HB5817_APH_1 j96nkqhy4u63 1 transmittal of a proposed major rule from an agency under section 45 or receives the transmitted documents from the committee under section 67b(1)(d), the legislature may adopt a concurrent resolution that approves and provides for an effective date of the proposed major rule.

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