Executive Order # 8, signed by Governor Vilsack on September 14, 1999, requires each agency of the Executive Branch of the State of Iowa to undertake a formal process of review of its administrative rules. The purposes of this review process are to eliminate outdated, redundant, over-broad, unnecessary, or otherwise undesirable rules and to ensure that remaining agency rules and rules adopted in the future are needed, effective, reasonable, clear, and consistent with legislative intent and the authority of the department. The Executive Order requires each agency to formulate a plan for this formal review process. The Department's Administrative Rules Improvement Plan has been approved by the Governor's Office.

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Please note that the plan calls for stakeholder involvement in the rules review process. If you would like to be notified about proceedings related any grouping of rules identified in the plan, let us know by e-mail, phone, or regular mail. Please identify yourself, including any organizational affiliation if you are their representative and which grouping or groupings or rules in which you are interested.