2011 Alaska Statutes
Title 24. LEGISLATURE AND LOBBYING
Chapter 24.20. AGENCIES AND PERMANENT COMMITTEES
Sec. 24.20.460. Powers.

The Administrative Regulation Review Committee has the following powers:

(1) to organize and adopt rules for the conduct of its business;

(2) to hold public hearings;

(3) to require all state officials and agencies of state government to give full cooperation to the committee or its staff in assembling and furnishing requested information;

(4) to examine all administrative regulations, including proposed regulations, amendments, and orders of repeal, to determine if they properly implement legislative intent and to provide comments on them to the governor and state agencies;

(5) to prepare and distribute reports, memoranda, or other materials;

(6) to promote needed revision or repeal of regulations that have been adopted by state departments and agencies and, when the committee determines a regulation should be repealed or amended, to introduce a bill that would enact a statute that would supersede or nullify the regulation;

(7) to investigate findings that are transmitted to the committee by a standing committee in accordance with AS 24.05.182 and, as appropriate, to either introduce a bill annulling the regulation or exercise the committee's power to suspend the effectiveness of the regulation in accordance with AS 24.20.445 .