§1383 Procedural Rules

Summary

The Executive Director must, with the Board’s approval, write rules for how the Office and its hearing officers operate and send those rules to be printed in the Congressional Record. The Executive Director can change those rules the same way and must follow the rulemaking steps in section 553 of title 5. Before making rules, the Executive Director must give public notice under section 553(b) but send that notice to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate for publication in the Congressional Record (not the Federal Register). The public gets at least 30 days to comment after that publication. When rules are adopted, the Executive Director must send the final rules to the same leaders for Congressional Record publication, and the rules count as issued on the day they appear there.