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."
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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?
That'll help. Those idiots will re-write them, alright. They'll make 'em twice as long and half as comprehensible.
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.
This sounds alot like the Executive order PO singed a few days ago. All talk and no effective or real action
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.
“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.
It’s pretty much a sure thing that the “big review to kill regulations” will result in more and worse regulation.
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.
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.
Good news: There are no duplicative, archaic or inconsistent rules.
Back to business as usual.
“recommend a wholesale re-writing of the state’s regulatory scheme.”
That would take 10,000 monkeys typing for 10,000 years.
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