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Panel debates 'red tape' rollback bill; questions on agency capacity
Summary
Lawmakers discussed Senate Bill 28, a lieutenant governor-backed measure that would require regular agency reviews and impose new impact analyses aimed at reducing regulatory burdens on businesses; members asked whether agencies have the staffing or funding to carry out the work.
A committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 28 on a measure described by its presenter as the lieutenant governor’s “red tape rollback” bill, which would require periodic reviews of state agency rules and create new small-business and economic-impact analyses.
The bill would expand the state’s small-business definition in the measure from firms of 100 or fewer employees to firms of 300 or fewer, require a “small business impact analysis,” and create an economic impact threshold for larger rules described in committee as those expected to cost $3,000,000 or more…
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