Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, has resurrected legislation to create a task force to identify and eliminate regulations harming the state’s economic climate and stunting business growth. The new legislation, House Bill 379, got unanimous approval vote in the House Regulatory Reform Committee on Tuesday morning. It passed with no debate, other than a technical...
Perhaps the biggest task facing a Republican-controlled General Assembly when it returns from a two-week hiatus Wednesday is finding common ground with a new Democratic governor, and vice versa. That’s a significant challenge, considering the contentious nature of last year’s special sessions and the flurry of lawsuits that followed. Lawmakers will work toward passing a $22...
Many state agencies are skirting legislation requiring them to determine whether the regulations they collectively impose are necessary, said Garth Dunklin, chairman of the state Rules Review Commission. Dunklin wants tighter controls to force agencies to look closer at rules they issue and potentially remove more of them from the books. The Rules Review Commission has...
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking repeal of six unnecessary certificate-of-need rules to reduce the regulatory burden on medical diagnostic centers and purchase of major medical equipment. Some health care experts welcome the reduced red tape, but say the changes don’t go far enough. The proposal, which would be effective Dec. 1,...
North Carolina was lauded for “impressive reforms” curtailing its regulatory burdens on businesses and individuals, and national policy analysts discussed methods of further reducing costly restrictions during a June 22 teleconference call. “North Carolina has been a model for a lot of things,” said Patrick Gleason, director of state affairs at Americans for Tax Reform....
The state Senate on Monday approved its version of regulation reform on a mostly party-line 30-15 vote. The 2016 version of the Senate deregulation bill includes a provision that restricts agencies from imposing costly regulations that exceed thresholds set by the statute. Another provision would end the ban on using landfills to dispose of electronic...
The 2016 edition of regulatory reform is beginning to emerge as both the House and the Senate piece together their respective versions, which focus on curtailing costly rules and making the process of imposing regulations more accountable to the public. “This effort here is to address unnecessary and over-burdensome regulations that our citizens have identified,”...
Let’s keep clearing North Carolina's regulatory underbrush. That will leave space for new ideas, companies, and jobs to grow.
Overregulation is particularly damaging to small businesses, which lack the scale to shoulder compliance costs that large firms possess.
Rick Henderson races for Senate & Governor; Joseph Connors on freedom's relationship to a thriving society; legislators debate rolling back regulations & improving supplemental insurance for gov't workers; Sarah Curry on use of incentives by big NC cities
The Democrats’ problem is that a “victory” on photo ID is really a loss, politically speaking.
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