This page provides resources for agencies to complete a review of their administrative rules in accordance with Executive Order 10.
Goals of the Red Tape Review
- Implement a deliberative approach to rulemaking
- Increase public input in the rulemaking process
- Eliminate rules that do not provide substantiated benefits to Iowans
- Adopt the least costly way to realize the public benefits or purpose of a rule
- Adhere to the rulemaking authority granted by the legislature
- Reduce page and word count of the administrative code
- Reduce restrictive language (shall, must, may not, prohibit, require, restrict)
- Avoid verbatim repetition of statutory language, cite the statute instead
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