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Steinberg wants big review to kill regulations
SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 1/21/11 | Susan Ferriss

Posted on 01/21/2011 1:02:43 PM PST by SmithL

California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, today said he will pursue emergency legislation forcing state agencies to review all regulations and recommend a wholesale re-writing of the state's regulatory scheme.

In an interview with The Bee Capitol Bureau, Steinberg said he'll propose "urgency legislation that directs each state agency to review its regulations, identify any duplicative, archaic or inconsistent rules."

Steinberg said lawmakers could then act on the recommendations over the next six months, perhaps expunging some rules from the 5,000-page California Code of Regulations as part of the state budget negotiations.

"To our knowledge, no one, not a previous governor, not the agencies and not the Legislature have ever compelled this sort of retrospective review to ensure that state regulations are streamlined, that they're up to date and that they're consistent with the law," Steinberg said.

The Democratic leader said his is not an effort to "weaken or undermine public health, environmental or worker safety protections," but rather to make it easier for businesses to "wade through the often difficult, complicated, duplicative bureaucracies that delay economic investment and job growth."

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: businesskillers; goldenstate; overregulated; yourtaxdollarsatwork
But he won't touch Cap & Trade, or even the silly Happy Meals laws.
1 posted on 01/21/2011 1:02:47 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
A big, gigantic, humongous bite is needed and the CA Rats continue to nibble around the edges like miniature minnows with weak jaws.
2 posted on 01/21/2011 1:11:02 PM PST by JPG (There is hope for America and her name is Sarah Palin.)
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To: SmithL

Instead of making it easier to navigate through so many laws and regulations, how about get rid of most of the laws and regulations? Doesn’t that sound better?


3 posted on 01/21/2011 1:11:33 PM PST by wastedyears (It has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control.)
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To: SmithL
recommend a wholesale re-writing of the state's regulatory scheme.

That'll help. Those idiots will re-write them, alright. They'll make 'em twice as long and half as comprehensible.

4 posted on 01/21/2011 1:13:35 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: SmithL

Wait. I’ve got it. They should appoint a commission to investigate the possibility of setting up a new California Regulation Streamlining Agency (CRSA). Yes that’s it, complete with a new California Streamlining Czar(CSC). The CSC of the CRSA would oversee a staff of 500 to 1000 with a new building being built in Sacramento and satellite offices in all major cities. Oh man, I should have been a politician.


5 posted on 01/21/2011 1:17:02 PM PST by Graneros ("The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." — Albert Einstein)
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To: SmithL
The California Democrats have screwed up this State so bad it will never recover. And they are still in power and so confused they look like about 5 years old. Keep these idiots in power and down in the dump it will continue. They are so similar to blind communists that there is no difference.
6 posted on 01/21/2011 1:45:36 PM PST by Logical me
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To: SmithL

This sounds alot like the Executive order PO singed a few days ago. All talk and no effective or real action


7 posted on 01/21/2011 1:53:24 PM PST by funfan
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To: SmithL

If he and other Calirado, er, California leaders were really serious about that, they’d simply find a way to stomp on all rural zoning ordinances against domestic manufacturing and ordinances/laws against owner-builders. Oh...and rural HOAs.


8 posted on 01/21/2011 2:07:48 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: SmithL

“Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg” is trying to whack a rich, lazy mule into action with tailoring of regulations to suit the importing/bureaucratic beast, BTW. It won’t work.


9 posted on 01/21/2011 2:10:21 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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It’s pretty much a sure thing that the “big review to kill regulations” will result in more and worse regulation.


10 posted on 01/21/2011 2:10:53 PM PST by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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Review criteria: “identify any duplicative, archaic or inconsistent rules.”

This completely pointless other than letting Rats pretend like they’re doing something about regulations besides making more of them. Pretty much like Obama’s recent empty directive to the federal agencies regarding review of regulations.

It’s not duplicative, archaic, or inconsistent regulations that are the trouble. It’s all the ones that create a hostile environment for the conduct of business, manufacturing, mining, and hiring employees.


11 posted on 01/21/2011 2:49:02 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the right stuff!)
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To: SmithL

My company will not hire in CA anymore except if somebody truly needs to be there. Its too complicated and expensive to do business in CA.


12 posted on 01/21/2011 3:13:11 PM PST by omega4179 (Loughner--influenced by left wing hate media!)
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Good news: There are no duplicative, archaic or inconsistent rules.

Back to business as usual.


13 posted on 01/21/2011 3:22:07 PM PST by telebob
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To: SmithL

“recommend a wholesale re-writing of the state’s regulatory scheme.”

That would take 10,000 monkeys typing for 10,000 years.


14 posted on 01/21/2011 5:25:24 PM PST by sergeantdave
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Thanks SmithL.
15 posted on 01/22/2011 5:15:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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