The Iowa legislature recently passed, and Gov. Reynolds subsequently signed into law SF 2463, which rescinded state agency contested case rules and replaced them with the Uniform Rules on Agency Procedure.
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The Iowa legislature recently passed, and Gov. Reynolds subsequently signed into law SF 2463, which rescinded state agency contested case rules and replaced them with the Uniform Rules on Agency Procedure. As a result, 876 IAC chapters 4, 5, 7, and most of chapter 9 were replaced by the Uniform Rules (unless an agency adopts differing emergency rules) while chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 11 remain unchanged.
The Iowa Workers’ Compensation Division (IWCD) determined that many of the Uniform Rules were ill-suited for the workers' compensation system, which has long operated more like district court litigation than a typical administrative proceeding. Accordingly, the IWCD specifically declined to adopt numerous Uniform Rules—including those governing discovery, pleadings, motions, prehearing conferences, continuances, defaults, telephone proceedings, interlocutory appeals, and applications for rehearing—and instead enacted emergency rules to preserve decades of well-established contested case procedures. These new emergency rules replace 876 IAC chapter 4 with new chapter 2506 (see the conversion table below).
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