succeeding legislative session, but an agency may submit a
proposed regulation and the material required under subsection
(a) to the commission and the Legislative Reference Bureau
during this period in accordance with subsection (a). The public
comment period shall commence with the publication of the notice
of proposed rulemaking and end on the date designated by the
agency under subsection (b). The agency shall submit the
proposed regulation and required material to the committees no
later than the second Monday after the date by which both
committee designations have been published in the Pennsylvania
Bulletin. If the agency does not deliver the proposed regulation
and all material required under this section in the time
prescribed in this subsection, the agency shall be deemed to
have withdrawn the proposed regulation.
(g) The commission may, within thirty days after the close
of the public comment period, convey to the agency and
[committees] committee chairpersons any comments,
recommendations and objections to the proposed regulation. The
committee chairpersons shall, within five business days of
receipt, distribute the commission's comments, recommendations
or objections to the proposed regulation to the committee
members of the committee chairperson's caucus. The comments,
recommendations and objections shall specify the regulatory
review criterion set forth in section 5.2 which the proposed
regulation has not met. If the commission does not comment on,
make recommendations regarding or object to any portion of the
proposed regulation within the time provided in this subsection,
the commission shall be deemed to have approved that portion of
the proposed regulation. Disapproval of the final-form
regulation by the commission shall relate only to comments,
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