Nearly 1,000 pages of obsolete, duplicative, or ineffective state regulations will be eliminated this year as a consequence of a new legislation signed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday.
The new legislation is part of the effort to create more streamlined and user-friendly regulations for citizens and small businesses.
“Permits that used to take months to get processed are now taking days. Regulations that were nearly impossible to find in hard copy can now be found online,” said Malloy in relation to the new legislation, which is a follow-up to the governor’s proposal in 2012 to publish all state agency regulations on the internet. That proposal was signed into law, and as a result, all state regulations are now online at www.ct.gov/eregulations.
The current bill – Public Act 14-187, An Act Eliminating Unnecessary Government Regulation – followed a public review period last fall where the governor invited members of the public to comment and review state regulations. Furthermore, Malloy directed every state agency to conduct independent reviews of the regulations under their jurisdiction.
The new legislation affects regulations contained within the Department of Labor, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection, and other regulations pertaining to statutes that have since been repealed.
