XXVIII. Next Steps

The Chief Administrative Law Judge will submit a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the attached draft of the proposed rule amendments and all other required documents to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register. This publication starts the 45-day notice and comment period, which is the first stage leading to the adoption and codification (in the California Code of Regulations) of the proposed amendments to the Rules of Practice and Procedure. For purposes of such publication, the Chief Administrative Law Judge is authorized to propose nonsubstantive changes to the draft whenever such nonsubstantive change will improve the clarity or consistency of the rule. This order, including the text of the proposed rule amendment, and other documents submitted to the OAL will also be published on our website.

We invite written comments on the proposal. We have attempted to include in Appendix C, in red-lined format, all changes to the existing rules that we are currently proposing. However, it is possible that some changes may not have been red-lined, or that the clean copy included as Appendix A may not entirely match the red-lined version in Appendix C. We encourage parties to draw any such inconsistencies to our attention. Comments may be filed and served on or before April 24, 2006.