Section 80. Appointment of negotiated rulemaking panel

A. The agency may appoint a negotiated rulemaking panel (NRP) if a regulatory action is expected to be controversial.

B. An NRP that has been appointed by the agency may be dissolved by the agency when:

1. There is no longer controversy associated with the development of the regulation;

2. The agency determines that the regulatory action is either exempt or excluded from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act; or

3. The agency determines that resolution of a controversy is unlikely.

C. At the discretion of the Board of Education, the appropriate standing advisory committee to the Board of Education may serve in the same advisory capacity as a negotiated rulemaking panel.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 25, Issue 11, eff. March 19, 2009.

Statutory Authority

§§ 2.2-4007.02 and 22.1-16 of the Code of Virginia.