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Revisor allowed to clean up language
Each session, a law is needed to clean up statute language that could include erroneous, ambiguous, and omitted text and obsolete references.

SF2060/HF2770/CH187 (view full story)

Improving agencies’ management structures
A new law will allow state agencies to contract with private vendors to look for efficiencies in their internal management structures.

HF1813/SF1650/CH220 (view full story)

Annual claims law
New law settles claims against the state by those incarcerated.

SF2112/HF2437/CH232 (view full story)

Rulemaking oversight
A new law will provide for greater legislative oversight of administrative rules.

SF1922/HF2169/CH238 (view full story)

Council sunset dates extended
A quartet of advisory councils will have their sunset dates extended.

SF1679/HF1993/CH271 (view full story)

Council, board sunsets delayed
Several state councils and boards scheduled to expire this year, as recommended by the Sunset Advisory Commission, will have a reprieve for two or six more years.

HF2555/SF2304/CH278 (view full story)

Protecting private data
A new law details how private data is collected, maintained or disseminated.

SF1143/HF1466/CH290 (view full story)

Protections for newborn information
A new law, primarily crafted to align appropriations contained in the February Economic Forecast, also lays out the newborn screening provision.

HF2967/SF2558/CH292 (view full story)

Statute clarification and correction
A new law makes clarifications and corrections from laws enacted in 2012.

SF1420/HF1702/CH298 (view full story)

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