Administrative regulations: public participation: comment process.

Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, sets forth the requirements for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of regulations by state agencies. The act prohibits a state agency from issuing, utilizing, enforcing, or attempting to enforce any guideline, standard of general application, or other rule that is a regulation, as defined, unless it has been adopted as a regulation and filed with the Secretary of State. The act further requires every agency subject to the act to submit to the Office of Administrative Law a notice of proposed action and to make available to the public a copy of an initial statement of reasons for the regulation.