11346.3.
(a) State agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any administrative regulation shall assess the potential for adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals, avoiding the imposition of unnecessary or unreasonable regulations or reporting, recordkeeping, or compliance requirements. For purposes of this subdivision, assessing the potential for adverse economic impact shall require agencies, when proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation, to adhere to the following requirements, to the extent that these requirements do not conflict with other state or federal laws:(1) The proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation shall be based
on adequate information concerning the need for, and consequences of, proposed governmental action.
(2) The state agency, prior to submitting a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation to the office, shall consider the proposal’s impact on business, with consideration of industries affected including the ability of California businesses to compete with businesses in other states. For purposes of evaluating the impact on the ability of California businesses to compete with businesses in other states, an agency shall consider, but not be limited to, information supplied by interested parties.
It is not the intent of this section to impose additional criteria on agencies, above that which exists in current law, in assessing adverse economic impact on California business enterprises, but only to assure that the assessment is made early in the process of initiation and development of a proposed
adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation.
(b) (1) All state agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any administrative regulations shall assess whether and to what extent it will affect the following:
(A) The creation or elimination of jobs within the State of California.
(B) The creation of new businesses or the elimination of existing businesses within the State of California.
(C) The expansion of businesses currently doing business within the State of California.
(2) (A) All state agencies proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal any administrative regulations shall also prepare, as part of the assessment required by this section, a
detailed estimate of the total actual costs of compliance for affected businesses and individuals. The cost impacts shall, at a minimum, estimate costs of individual compliance as well as the aggregate statewide cost of compliance. cumulative statewide cost impacts for affected businesses.
(B) The agency shall notify the fiscal committee in each house of the Legislature and the appropriate policy committee in each house of the Legislature if the estimated actual costs of compliance for affected businesses or individuals, at the individual level, exceeds ____ dollars ($____) cumulative
statewide cost impact for affected businesses exceeds ten million dollars ($10,000,000). This notification is intended to provide the Legislature sufficient time, to the extent the Legislature may disapprove of the regulation, to enact a statute that restricts the statutory authority of the agency to enact the regulation.
(3) This subdivision does not apply to the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, or the Fair Political Practices Commission.
(4) Information required from state agencies for the purpose of completing the assessment may come from existing state publications.
(c) No administrative regulation adopted on or after January 1, 1993, that requires a report shall apply to businesses, unless the state agency adopting the regulation makes a finding that it is
necessary for the health, safety, or welfare of the people of the state that the regulation apply to businesses.