Pennsylvania Code
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part I - Joint Committee on Documents
Chapter 7 - PROCEDURE FOR ADOPTION OR CHANGE OF REGULATIONS
Section 7.2 - Adoption of regulations

(a) Section 202 of the act (45 P. S. § 1202) provides that before taking action upon an administrative regulation or change the agency shall review and consider a written comment submitted under § 7.1 (relating to notice of proposed rulemaking required) and may hold public hearings as appropriate; that if the statute or other authority under which a regulation is proposed to be promulgated, amended or repealed requires the holding of public hearings or establishes other procedures in addition to those prescribed by sections 201-208 of the act (45 P. S. §§ 1201-1208), the agency shall hold public hearings or comply with the other procedures as are not inconsistent with the provisions of the act; that the agency text of an administrative regulation or change as finally adopted may contain modifications to the proposed text as published under § 7.1 as do not enlarge its original purpose; and that modifications which enlarge the original purpose of a proposal as published under § 7.1 shall be republished thereunder prior to final adoption by the agency.

(b) Whenever an agency finally adopts a proposed regulation more than 1 year after the proposed regulation was published under § 7.1, the Bureau will republish, in full, the entire regulation as finally adopted.