A REPORT OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE COMMITTEE

A Report to the 55th Legislature

Prepared by
John MacMaster, Staff Attorney

November 1996

Published by
Montana Legislative Services Division
Room 138, State Capitol
Helena, Montana 59620
(406) 444-3064
FAX: (406) 444-3036

MEMBERSHIP
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE COMMITTEE

Representative Marge Fisher
Presiding Officer (R)

Representative Matt Denny (R)

Representative Deb Kottel (D)

Representative Dore Schwinden (D)

Senator Terry Klampe
Vice Presiding Officer (D)

Senator Larry Baer (R)

Senator Gary Forrester (D)

Senator Don Hargrove (R)

COMMITTEE STAFF
John MacMaster, Staff Attorney
Lois O'Connor, Secretary

Published by:
MONTANA LEGISLATIVE SERVICES DIVISION
Senator J.D. Lynch, Chairman
Robert B. Person, Executive Director
Gregory J. Petesch, Director, Legal Services Office
David D. Bohyer, Director, Office of Research and Policy Analysis
Henry C. Trenk, Director, Office of Legislative Information Technology

ACTIVITIES DURING THE 1995-96 INTERIM

The Administrative Code Committee was relatively inactive during the 1995-96interim, especially compared to prior interims. This inactivity was largelybecause of a decrease in the number of complaints from the public regardingexisting and proposed rules and their application and a decrease in the numberof rule proposals that the Committee found it necessary to consider at aCommittee meeting. The Committee met only once during the interim. Therefore, in the interest of saving publication costs and to avoid repeating thematerial contained in prior Committee reports to the Legislature, this report willbe brief. Readers are referred to material in the Committee's report to the 52ndLegislature for information regarding the functions of the Committee, the needfor an administrative procedure act and Committee oversight of administrativerulemaking, the Committee's powers, and the requirements of the MontanaAdministrative Procedure Act (MAPA).

The Committee met on February 23, 1996, to elect a presiding officer and vicepresiding officer and to consider a building subdivision that was required by theDepartment of Public Health and Human Services to have both a well and aholding tank for each house. Rules regulating dental hygienists and dentalassistants were also considered.

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