The rules throttle is a regulatory reform proposed in the conference report on House Bill 162. My research update discusses several aspects of it:

  • What proposed rules would be affected
  • The good-government, separation-of-powers rationale behind it
  • What the chairman of the Rules Review Commission says about it
  • What critics say about it
  • How it would NOT prevent the General Assembly from drafting and passing a bill, even a bill that would make law out of a rules package the rules throttle would preclude