(a) Before the Kansas administrative regulations or the annual supplement thereto shall be published by the secretary of state, they shall be examined and compared by the attorney general and the secretary of state, and if they contain all rules and regulations approved for publication by the board, and otherwise comply with the terms of this act, they shall so certify and after such authentication they shall be deemed and held to be “Kansas administrative regulations” and evidence in all courts having jurisdiction in the state; and such authentication shall accompany each electronic or printed copy of Kansas administrative regulations and annual supplement thereto.

(b) (1) The secretary of state shall prepare a searchable database containing all of the Kansas administrative regulations, including any supplements, published pursuant to this section by July 1, 2012, if practicable. The database shall be constructed in such a manner that any person accessing or using such database shall be able to search for any rule and regulation based upon the number or subject matter of the rule and regulation or by keyword search. The initial search shall return a list of all rules and regulations which contain the initial search term.

(2) Using any rule and regulation containing the initial search term as an entry point into the database, the database shall permit the person using such database to:

(A) View all occurrences of the search term in the rule and regulation retrieved; and

(B) using the initially retrieved rule and regulation as an entry point into the database’s hierarchy, navigate to each rule and regulation which follows or precedes the initial rule and regulation.