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Commerce panel advances bill to expand small‑business regulatory analysis
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Summary
The Commerce Committee advanced SB1402, which would add record‑retention, employee‑benefit and production/packaging considerations to the state’s regulatory flexibility analysis for rules affecting small businesses, and placed the measure on the committee’s consent calendar for a future floor referral.
The Commerce Committee on Oct. 27 advanced SB1402, a bill that would expand the regulatory flexibility analysis required for regulations that affect small businesses to include record‑retention requirements, new employee benefits and required changes to production or packaging.
Proponents said the added items would produce a more complete assessment of the impact new regulations would have on small firms. The committee’s substitute language is recorded as LCO 6265 and the bill was described in committee as coming from the Manufacturing Collaborative and the Connecticut Business & Industry Association (CBIA).
Members discussed the three new elements the substitute would add to the small‑business analysis: whether a regulation requires retention of records and, if so, for what period; whether a regulation effectively requires additional employee benefits; and whether a regulation requires businesses to change manufactured products or packaging.
A motion to refer the bill with the committee substitute was moved and seconded; the bill was then placed on the committee’s consent calendar. A subsequent procedural announcement left final votes open (the committee did not announce a final tally at the hearing).
The measure was described in committee as a procedural improvement intended to give legislators and regulators more complete information about regulatory costs to small operations before rules are finalized.
The committee did not take a final recorded vote at the time the meeting adjourned; votes on consent calendar items were held open until 2:00 p.m., according to the meeting record.
