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Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR)

JCARR was created in 1977 by HB 257 of the 112th General Assembly (RC 101.35). The committee consists of five State Representatives and five State Senators. In odd-numbered years the chairperson is a House member and in even-numbered years, the chairperson is a Senate member.

The primary function of JCARR is to review proposed new, amended, and rescinded rules to ensure the following:

  1. the rules do not exceed the scope of the rule-making agency's statutory authority;
  2. the rules do not conflict with a rule of that agency or another rule-making agency;
  3. the rules do not conflict with the intent of the legislature in enacting the statute under which the rule is proposed; and,
  4. the rule-making agency has prepared a complete and accurate rule summary and fiscal analysis of the proposed rule, amendment, or rescission (RC 127.18).

JCARR also reviews rules filed pursuant to RC 119.032 known as the Five-year Review. Rules filed pursuant to this section can be filed as No Change filings and are reviewed by JCARR under an additional set of criteria.

For more information, please access the JCARR website: http://www.jcarr.state.oh.us/