(a) When an agency adopts a rule or regulation, or makes a substantive amendment to a rule or regulation of the agency during the legislative interim between July 1 and the second Tuesday in January, and the chair of a standing committee of either house believes in good faith that the rule, regulation, or amendment to the rule or regulation impacts or is within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the committee, the chair may schedule a meeting of the committee to consider the rule, regulation, or amendment to the rule or regulation. (b) When more than 1 standing committee wishes to hold a meeting to consider the same rule, regulation, or amendment to the rule or regulation, the standing committees shall become a joint committee and shall remain as a joint committee for that purpose until the first day of the next following General Assembly session, or until the adjournment of the joint committee, whichever comes first. A standing committee may withdraw from the joint committee at any time. Each joint committee consisting of standing committees from both Houses of the General Assembly must be co-chaired by a House standing committee chair and a Senate standing committee chair. (c) Each joint committee shall have the power, by a majority vote of its members, to draft a committee report setting forth its suggestions and recommendations, and to request the President Pro Tempore of the Senate or the Speaker of the House to call a special session to consider committee recommendations. Each joint committee shall provide its committee report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee.
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