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PFDC Celebrates Fair Data Act
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The PA Federation of Dog Clubs is celebrates the signing of the Fair Data Bill (SB 263) into Law by Governor Corbett on July 7, 2011.
The bill adds the following definition to the act: " Acceptable data . " Empirical, replicable and testable data as evidenced in supporting documentation, statistics, reports, studies or research.
It then requires that the regulatory analysis form submitted with the regulation include "(14) A description of any data upon which a regulation is based with a detailed explanation of how the data was obtained and why the data is acceptable data. An agency advocating that any data is acceptable data shall have the burden of proving that the data is acceptable. "
The bill, which amends the Regulatory Review Act, was introduced in 2008 but did not go anywhere that session.