STAC shall develop guidelines related to the administration of the programs established by this chapter. At least twenty (20) days before the effective date of any guidelines or nontechnical amendments to guidelines, STAC must publish the proposed guidelines on STAC website and provide notice to persons who have requested notice of proposed guidelines. In addition, STAC must accept oral and written comments on the proposed guidelines during the fifteen (15) business days beginning on the first day that STAC has completed these notifications. For the purpose of this section, a technical amendment is either of the following: (1) An amendment that corrects a spelling or grammatical error. (2) An amendment that makes a clarification based on public comment and could have been anticipated by the public notice that immediately preceded the public comment. History of Section.P.L. 2013, ch. 144, art. 23, § 1.
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