Click here to register. To encourage and support more effective participation in the rulemaking process by the nonprofit sector and to help increase the transparency, fairness and effectiveness of this process, the Fiscal Policy Institute, with support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, is launching a New York State Regulatory Effectiveness Project . He will also discuss the training, information exchange, and public education activities that FPI will be undertaking in conjunction with the Regulatory Effectiveness Project.
Participation is open to all but advance registartion is required since space is limited.
Many laws enacted by the New York State Legislature leave a great deal of discretion to the executive branch agencies charged with their administration. In implementing such laws, state agencies are frequently required, and almost always allowed, to adopt implementing regulations. As a result of their force and range, agency rules affect the health, safety and welfare of all New Yorkers in substantial ways. Despite the importance of agency rules to their work, many nonprofit organizations are unaware of the opportunities that are available to them to participate in the rulemaking process, and very few actually take advantage of those opportunities on a regular basis. This executive order seems to have rendered many of the public participation provisions of the State Administrative Procedure Act less meaningful than originally intended.