Administrative Rules

 

Administrative Rules publishes administrative rules and regulations. After the Legislature enacts laws, 191 Missouri agencies write rules and regulations to implement those laws. The secretary of state publishes the Missouri Register twice a month to keep Missourians informed of pending rules and regulations.

The Missouri Register contains proposed rulemakings which will not become effective until Missouri citizens have an opportunity to attend a public hearing or submit written comments. The state agencies must, in subsequent editions of the Register, publish a summary of comments and the agency's changes to the rulemakings, if any. 

Emergency rulemakings, which are only valid for a specified time period, are also published in the Register. The Register also contains an index, a listing of rule numbers with changes pending, a table of emergency rulemakings currently in effect, and a table showing Executive Orders published.

After the rules have been adopted, they are codified and published in the Code of State Regulations. These rules become effective thirty (30) days after publication in Code. The Code of State Regulations is updated monthly. A subject index, as well as a cross-index to the Revised Statutes of Missouri and the corresponding rules is part of the Code.

Both Code and Register are available, at no cost, on the Internet.

Additionally, Administrative Rules is charged by statute to set uniform standards, procedures, and guidelines for the preparation and publishing of rules and regulations in the Register and the Code; therefore, the Missouri State Rulemaking Manual is available, at no cost, on the Internet and is designed as a user's guide for rule preparation.