Governor Dannel P. Malloy today reiterated support for his proposal to kill off 1,000 pages of state regs identified as “obsolete, duplicative, excessively burdensome, or otherwise ineffective or unnecessary,” in an attempt to help state residents and small business.
“We’re committed to making state government more efficient, more transparent and more responsive. Streamlining regulations and repealing those that are just too burdensome or no longer needed will help in our efforts to be more user-friendly for both citizens and businesses,” Malloy said in a statement. He pushed for HB 5049, which sit before the Government Administration and Elections Committee and its March 28 deadline.
Here are some examples the governor is pointing out:
- “An outdated and discriminatory Department of Labor regulation of unknown age that prohibits women from working alone between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
- Several outdated and conflicting regulations contained within the Department of Administrative Services that have been unnecessary since the adoption of the state building code in the late 1980s
- A regulation regarding the grading of Connecticut-grown apples that duplicates USDA regulations and has never been used
- Multiple Department of Economic & Community Development regulations dealing with programs repealed by the legislature many years ago, some as far back as the late 1980s
- A Department of Energy & Environmental Protection regulation setting forth detailed standards on the use of a pesticide that has not been used in Connecticut since the late 1970s and is otherwise regulated by the department’s more up-to-date pesticide regulations
- Housing regulations dealing with programs that have not been funded by the General Assembly in decades
- Dozens of other regulations pertaining to statutes that have long since been repealed.”