study and report on rules and regulations

study and report on rules and regulations Sec. 503. (a) The Commissioner shall conduct a study of all rules, regulations, guidelines, or other published interpretations or orders issued by him or by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (or any of their delegates) in connection with, or affecting, the administration of any program to which the General Education Provisions Act applies, which have been issued after June 30, 1965. Such study shall include a review of each such rule, regulation, guideline, interpretation. or order as it relates to the statutory or other legal authority upon which it is based, and to committee reports relating to such statutory authority. (b) No later than one year after the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall submit a report on the study conducted pursuant to subsection (a) to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives which report shall include the specific legal authority of each section, or other division, of each rule, regulation, guideline, interpretation, or other order to which this section applies. (c) Not later than sixty days after the date of submission of the report required by subsection (b) of this section, all rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations, or other orders to which this section applies shall be published in the Federal Register. During the sixty-day period following such publication, the Commissioner shall provide interested parties an opportunity for a public hearing on the matters so published. (d) After a study of comments and recommendations offered to the Commissioner during the sixty-day period specified in subsection (c), he shall submit a report to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives on such comments and recommendations, and any action he has taken as a result thereof, and he shall, not later than sixty days after the period specified in subsection (c), republish all rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations and orders in the Federal Register, which shall supersede all preceding rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations and orders issued in connection with, or affecting, any program to which the General Education Provisions Act applies, and become effective thirty days after such republication.