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Senior fellow urges Kansas to force regular rule review, add sunsets and retrospective analyses
Summary
Tim Frost of the Cicero Institute told the Senate Commerce Committee that Kansas should strengthen its Administrative Procedures Act with automatic rule sunsets, mandatory retrospective cost–benefit reviews, machine‑readable rule publication and stronger legislative oversight to curb regulatory accumulation.
Tim Frost, senior fellow at the Cicero Institute, told the Kansas Senate Commerce Committee on Sept. 24 that regulatory accumulation imposes significant costs on commerce and households and recommended a series of statutory changes to limit that burden.
Frost, who said he oversaw a large licensing consolidation and a repeal‑and‑replace of administrative code in Idaho, described Kansas’s current regulatory volume as “three million words” with tens of thousands of prescriptive terms such as “shall” and “must.” He said jurisdictions that shrink regulatory word counts can see measurable economic gains and cited a Mercatus Center estimate that a 40% regulatory…
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