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become binding as of the date specified, as published with the final version of the rule as approved by the Commission. (c) When promulgating a rule, the Interstate Commission shall, at a minimum: (1) Publish the proposed rule's entire text stating the reason or reasons for that proposed rule; (2) Allow and invite any and all persons to submit written data, facts, opinions, and arguments, which information shall be added to the record, and be made publicly available; (3) Provide an opportunity for an informal hearing if petitioned by 10 or more persons; and (4) Promulgate a final rule and its effective date, if appropriate, based on input from state or local officials, or interested parties. (d) Allow, not later than 60 days after a rule is promulgated, any interested person to file a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or in the Federal District Court where the Interstate Commission's principal office is located for judicial review of such rule. If the court finds that the Interstate Commission's action is not supported by substantial evidence in the rulemaking record, the court shall hold the rule unlawful and set it aside. For purposes of this subsection, evidence is substantial if it would be considered substantial evidence under the Model State Administrative Procedures Act. (e) If a majority of the legislatures of the compacting states rejects a rule, those states may, by enactment of a statute or resolution in the same manner used to adopt the compact, cause that such rule shall have no further force and effect in any compacting state. (f) The existing rules governing the operation of the Interstate Compact on Juveniles superseded by this Act shall be null and void 12 months after the first meeting of the Interstate Commission created under this compact. (g) Upon determination by the Interstate Commission that a state-of-emergency exists, it may promulgate an emergency rule that shall become effective immediately upon adoption, provided that the usual rulemaking procedures provided under the compact shall be retroactively applied to the rule as soon as reasonably possible, but no later than 90 days after the effective date of the emergency rule. (a) Oversight (1) The Interstate Commission shall oversee the administration and operations of the interstate movement of juveniles subject to this compact in the compacting states and shall monitor such activities being administered in non-compacting states that may significantly affect compacting states; (2) The courts and executive agencies in each compacting state shall enforce this compact and shall take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact's purposes and intent; the provisions of this compact and the rules promulgated under this compact shall be received by all the judges, public officers, commissions, and departments of the state government as evidence of the authorized statute and administrative rules; all courts shall take judicial notice of the compact and the rules; in any judicial or administrative proceeding in a compacting state pertaining to the subject matter of this compact that may affect the powers, responsibilities, or actions of the Interstate Commission, it shall be entitled to receive all service of process in any such proceeding, and shall have standing to intervene in the proceeding for all purposes;