Des Moines, Iowa — State agencies will continue going over their administrative rules this year to comply with an executive order from the governor as part of the effort to streamline government.
Iowa Department of Transportation spokesman Stuart Anderson says they have specific instructions.
He says they got through about half of the rules this year, and will start on the other half in this new year.
There have been hundreds of rules to go through and Anderson says they’ve broken down by the various divisions in the department.
He says some rule chapters are more generic and they may be handled with multiple divisions doing that review. And he says they have one point person shepherding this whole process to make sure all the analysis is done in a consistent manner. Anderson says the changes made can very quite a bit.
Anderson says administrative rules only implement what Iowa law already says, and the laws aren’t changing, so it’s just a matter of how they define those processes to implement the law. The process is similar for other agencies across the state government as they review hundreds of rules.
