Agency Rulemaking Petition - Alabama

ALABAMA AGENCY-RULEMAKING PETITION PREPARATION PACKET

DO NOT SUBMIT: This packet records agency, authority, proposed-text, evidence, filing, and disposition decisions.

1. Agency and Petition Control

☐ The agency's current form, procedural rule, filing instructions, contacts, fee, copies, and signature requirements were preserved.

2. Requested Action and Route Classification

☐ Adopt a new rule

☐ Amend an existing rule

☐ Repeal an existing rule

☐ Mixed amendment and repeal

☐ Request actually seeks a declaratory ruling, waiver, variance, enforcement policy, guidance, adjudicatory relief, license action, procurement change, legislation, or another route

☐ Other: [________________________________]

Approved petition route and why: [________________________________]

Other routes rejected and why: [________________________________]

3. Current Official Source Register

☐ Pending, enacted, recently effective, agency-specific, and administrative-code changes were checked.

4. Agency Authority and Statutory-Fit Matrix

☐ Agency has authority over each regulated person, activity, requirement, exception, fee, sanction, remedy, and implementation feature requested.

☐ The petition does not ask an agency to change a statute, court rule, constitutional rule, another agency's authority, or a matter reserved to legislation.

5. Existing Framework and Problem Record

Consequences of no action: [________________________________]

Prior agency, legislative, judicial, stakeholder, or federal history: [________________________________]

6. Proposed Rule Text Workbook

☐ Existing text is accurately quoted from the current official compilation.

☐ Additions, deletions, renumbering, definitions, cross-references, forms, appendices, transition provisions, and effective dates are clear.

7. Need, Evidence, and Alternatives Matrix

☐ Impact categories are included only when relevant or required for this petition and proposal.

8. Evidence and Exhibit Register

☐ Every quotation, data point, example, legal citation, technical claim, and calculation was checked against its original source.

9. Proposed Operative Petition Content Map

10. Filing and Disposition Control

11. Post-Disposition Route Map

Do not treat a petition denial as a contested-case decision or assume judicial review.

12. Operative Document and Approval Record

This packet remains non-operative. List every separately prepared petition, comment, request, or court filing.

13. Completion Checklist

☐ Exact agency, petition rule, form, recipient, filing method, requested action, and authority are verified

☐ Proposed text, definitions, cross-references, evidence, effects, alternatives, and exhibits are complete

☐ Petition, public comment, hearing request, declaratory ruling, legislation, and judicial review remain separate

☐ Response period, disposition, later rulemaking, and review route use current official authority

☐ No generic business-impact requirement, automatic hearing, deemed denial, or court appeal was assumed

☐ Every operative petition or later filing was separately approved, submitted, and preserved with proof

END OF NON-OPERATIVE PREPARATION PACKET