{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/2.2-4012.1.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/2.2-4012.1.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/2.2-4012.1.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/2.2-4012.1.html"}],"law_id":62113,"edition_id":1,"section_id":62113,"structure_id":13410,"section_number":"2.2-4012.1","catch_line":"Fast-track rulemaking process","history":"2003, c. 224; 2007, cc. 873, 916.","full_text":"Notwithstanding any other provision, rules that are expected to be noncontroversial may be promulgated or repealed in accordance with the process set out in this section. Upon the concurrence of the Governor, and after written notice to the applicable standing committees of the Senate of Virginia and the House of Delegates, and to the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the agency may submit a fast-track regulation without having previously published a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. The fast-track regulation shall be published in the Virginia Register of Regulations and posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, along with an agency statement setting out the reasons for using the fast-track rulemaking process. Such regulations shall be subject to the requirements set out in \u00a7\u00a7 2.2-4007.03, 2.2-4007.04, and 2.2-4007.05, except that the time for receiving public comment need not exceed 30 days after (i) publication of the regulation in the Virginia Register of Regulations and (ii) a public comment forum opens on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall. The time for preparation of the economic impact analysis shall not exceed 30 days. If an objection to the use of the fast-track process is received within the public comment period from 10 or more persons, any member of the applicable standing committee of either house of the General Assembly or of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the agency shall (i) file notice of the objection with the Registrar of Regulations for publication in the Virginia Register, and (ii) proceed with the normal promulgation process set out in this article with the initial publication of the fast-track regulation serving as the Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. Otherwise, the regulation will become effective or shall be repealed as appropriate, 15 days after the close of the comment period, unless the regulation or repeal is withdrawn or a later effective date is specified by the agency.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":226633,"text":"Notwithstanding any other provision, rules that are expected to be noncontroversial may be promulgated or repealed in accordance with the process set out in this section. Upon the concurrence of the Governor, and after written notice to the applicable standing committees of the Senate of Virginia and the House of Delegates, and to the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the agency may submit a fast-track regulation without having previously published a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. The fast-track regulation shall be published in the Virginia Register of Regulations and posted on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, along with an agency statement setting out the reasons for using the fast-track rulemaking process. Such regulations shall be subject to the requirements set out in \u00a7\u00a7 2.2-4007.03, 2.2-4007.04, and 2.2-4007.05, except that the time for receiving public comment need not exceed 30 days after (i) publication of the regulation in the Virginia Register of Regulations and (ii) a public comment forum opens on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall. The time for preparation of the economic impact analysis shall not exceed 30 days. If an objection to the use of the fast-track process is received within the public comment period from 10 or more persons, any member of the applicable standing committee of either house of the General Assembly or of the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the agency shall (i) file notice of the objection with the Registrar of Regulations for publication in the Virginia Register, and (ii) proceed with the normal promulgation process set out in this article with the initial publication of the fast-track regulation serving as the Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. Otherwise, the regulation will become effective or shall be repealed as appropriate, 15 days after the close of the comment period, unless the regulation or repeal is withdrawn or a later effective date is specified by the agency.","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":13410,"edition_id":1,"name":"Regulations","identifier":"2","label":"article","depth":5,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12798,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:50","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:50","permalink":{"id":176749,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":13410,"identifier":"2","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/40\/2","url":"\/2.2\/II\/B\/40\/2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12798,"edition_id":1,"name":"Administrative Process Act","identifier":"40","label":"chapter","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12751,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:53","permalink":{"id":176717,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12798,"identifier":"40","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/40","url":"\/2.2\/II\/B\/40\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12751,"edition_id":1,"name":"Transaction of Public Business","identifier":"B","label":"part","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12750,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":176445,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12751,"identifier":"B","token":"2.2\/II\/B","url":"\/2.2\/II\/B\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12750,"edition_id":1,"name":"Administration of State Government","identifier":"II","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12749,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":176253,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12750,"identifier":"II","token":"2.2\/II","url":"\/2.2\/II\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12749,"edition_id":1,"name":"Administration of Government","identifier":"2.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:51","permalink":{"id":171453,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12749,"identifier":"2.2","token":"2.2","url":"\/2.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":78729,"structure_id":13410,"section_number":"2.2-4006","catch_line":"Exemptions from requirements of this article","url":"\/2.2-4006\/","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/40\/2\/2.2-4006","metadata":false},{"id":58015,"structure_id":13410,"section_number":"2.2-4007","catch_line":"Petitions for new or amended regulations; 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?031+ful+CHAP0224\">224<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2007, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0873\">873<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0916\">916<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":63863,"section_number":"10.1-104.2:1","catch_line":"Nitrogen application rates; regulations","order_by":null,"url":"\/10.1-104.2_1\/"},{"id":74274,"section_number":"2.2-4007.01","catch_line":"Notice of intended regulatory action; public hearing","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4007.01\/"},{"id":70566,"section_number":"2.2-4012","catch_line":"Purpose; adoption; effective date; filing; duties of Registrar of Regulations","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4012\/"},{"id":66879,"section_number":"3.2-5121","catch_line":"Authority to adopt regulations; conformity with federal regulations; hearings; enforcement of article; review of regulations","order_by":null,"url":"\/3.2-5121\/"},{"id":56754,"section_number":"35.1-14","catch_line":"Regulations governing restaurants; advisory standards for exempt entities","order_by":null,"url":"\/35.1-14\/"},{"id":84187,"section_number":"54.1-2105.03","catch_line":"Continuing education; relicensure of brokers and salespersons","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-2105.03\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":54379,"section_number":"2.2-4007.03","catch_line":"Informational proceedings; effect of noncompliance","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4007.03\/"},{"id":79050,"section_number":"2.2-4007.04","catch_line":"Economic impact analysis","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4007.04\/"},{"id":68425,"section_number":"2.2-4007.05","catch_line":"Submission of proposed regulations to the Registrar","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4007.05\/"}],"permalink":{"id":176819,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62113,"identifier":"2.2-4012.1","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/40\/2\/2.2-4012.1","url":"\/2.2-4012.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-4012.1\/","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/40\/2\/2.2-4012.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Fast-track rulemaking process","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-4012.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Notwithstanding any other provision, <span class=\"dictionary\">rules<\/span> that are expected to be noncontroversial may be promulgated or repealed in accordance with the process set out in this section. Upon the concurrence of the Governor, and after written notice to the applicable standing committees of the Senate of Virginia and the House of Delegates, and to the Joint Commission on Administrative <span class=\"dictionary\">Rules<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">agency<\/span> may submit a fast-track <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> without having previously published a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. The fast-track <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> shall be published in the <span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia Register of Regulations<\/span> and posted on the <span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia Regulatory Town Hall<\/span>, along with an <span class=\"dictionary\">agency<\/span> statement setting out the reasons for using the fast-track rulemaking process. Such regulations shall be subject to the requirements set out in \u00a7\u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Informational proceedings; effect of noncompliance\" href=\"\/2.2-4007.03\/\">2.2-4007.03<\/a>, <a class=\"law\" title=\"Economic impact analysis\" href=\"\/2.2-4007.04\/\">2.2-4007.04<\/a>, and <a class=\"law\" title=\"Submission of proposed regulations to the Registrar\" href=\"\/2.2-4007.05\/\">2.2-4007.05<\/a>, except that the time for receiving public comment need not exceed 30 days after (i) publication of the <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> in the <span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia Register of Regulations<\/span> and (ii) a public comment forum opens on the <span class=\"dictionary\">Virginia Regulatory Town Hall<\/span>. The time for preparation of the economic impact analysis shall not exceed 30 days. If an objection to the use of the fast-track process is received within the public comment period from 10 or more persons, any member of the applicable standing committee of either house of the General Assembly or of the Joint Commission on Administrative <span class=\"dictionary\">Rules<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">agency<\/span> shall (i) file notice of the objection with the <span class=\"dictionary\">Registrar<\/span> of Regulations for publication in the Virginia Register, and (ii) proceed with the normal promulgation process set out in this article with the initial publication of the fast-track <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> serving as the Notice of Intended Regulatory Action. Otherwise, the <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> will become effective or shall be repealed as appropriate, 15 days after the close of the comment period, unless the <span class=\"dictionary\">regulation<\/span> or repeal is withdrawn or a later effective date is specified by the <span class=\"dictionary\">agency<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nFAST-TRACK RULEMAKING PROCESS (\u00a7 2.2-4012.1)\n\nNotwithstanding any other provision, rules that are expected to be\nnoncontroversial may be promulgated or repealed in accordance with the process\nset out in this section. Upon the concurrence of the Governor, and after written\nnotice to the applicable standing committees of the Senate of Virginia and the\nHouse of Delegates, and to the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the\nagency may submit a fast-track regulation without having previously published a\nNotice of Intended Regulatory Action. The fast-track regulation shall be\npublished in the Virginia Register of Regulations and posted on the Virginia\nRegulatory Town Hall, along with an agency statement setting out the reasons for\nusing the fast-track rulemaking process. Such regulations shall be subject to\nthe requirements set out in \u00a7\u00a7 2.2-4007.03, 2.2-4007.04, and 2.2-4007.05,\nexcept that the time for receiving public comment need not exceed 30 days after\n(i) publication of the regulation in the Virginia Register of Regulations and\n(ii) a public comment forum opens on the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall. The time\nfor preparation of the economic impact analysis shall not exceed 30 days. If an\nobjection to the use of the fast-track process is received within the public\ncomment period from 10 or more persons, any member of the applicable standing\ncommittee of either house of the General Assembly or of the Joint Commission on\nAdministrative Rules, the agency shall (i) file notice of the objection with the\nRegistrar of Regulations for publication in the Virginia Register, and (ii)\nproceed with the normal promulgation process set out in this article with the\ninitial publication of the fast-track regulation serving as the Notice of\nIntended Regulatory Action. Otherwise, the regulation will become effective or\nshall be repealed as appropriate, 15 days after the close of the comment period,\nunless the regulation or repeal is withdrawn or a later effective date is\nspecified by the agency.\n\nHISTORY: 2003, c. 224; 2007, cc. 873, 916.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}