Regulatory reduction pilot program; Department of Planning and Budget to implement, report. (SB20)
Introduced By
Sen. Amanda Chase (R-Midlothian)
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Department of Planning and Budget; regulatory reduction pilot program; report. Directs the Department of Planning and Budget (the Department), under the supervision of the Secretary of Finance (the Secretary), to administer a three-year regulatory reduction pilot program aimed at reducing by 25 percent the regulations and regulatory requirements, as defined in the bill, of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and the Department of Criminal Justice Services by July 1, 2021. The bill requires the Secretary to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee no later than October 1, 2019, and October 1, 2020, on the progress of the regulatory reduction pilot program. The bill also requires the Secretary to report by August 15, 2021, to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee (i) the progress toward identifying the 25 percent reduction goal, (ii) recommendations for expanding the program to other agencies, and (iii) any additional information the Secretary determines may be helpful to support the General Assembly's regulatory reduction and reform efforts. The bill provides that if, by October 1, 2021, the program has achieved less than a 25 percent total reduction in regulations and regulatory requirements across both pilot agencies, the Secretary shall report on the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing a 2-for-1 regulatory budget providing that for every one new regulatory requirement, two existing regulatory requirements of equivalent or greater burden must be streamlined, repealed, or replaced for a period not to exceed three years. Lastly, the bill directs all executive branch agencies subject to the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) to develop a baseline regulatory catalog and report such catalog data to the Department, which shall then track and report on the extent to which agencies comply with existing requirements to periodically review all regulations every four years. This bill is identical to HB 883. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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11/20/2017 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100264D |
11/20/2017 | Referred to Committee on Rules |
02/09/2018 | Reported from Rules with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/09/2018 | Committee substitute printed 18106556D-S1 |
02/10/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (SB20S1) |
02/12/2018 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/13/2018 | Read second time |
02/13/2018 | Reading of substitute waived |
02/13/2018 | Committee substitute agreed to 18106556D-S1 |
02/13/2018 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB20S1 |
02/13/2018 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/13/2018 | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/19/2018 | Placed on Calendar |
02/19/2018 | Read first time |
02/19/2018 | Referred to Committee on Appropriations |
02/21/2018 | Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/23/2018 | Read second time |
02/26/2018 | Read third time |
02/26/2018 | Committee amendment agreed to |
02/26/2018 | Engrossed by House as amended |
02/26/2018 | Passed House with amendment (94-Y 4-N) |
02/26/2018 | VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N) (see vote tally) |
02/28/2018 | Passed by temporarily |
02/28/2018 | House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
03/05/2018 | Enrolled |
03/05/2018 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB20ER) |
03/05/2018 | Signed by Speaker |
03/06/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (SB20ER) |
03/07/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (SB20ER) |
03/08/2018 | Signed by President |
03/14/2018 | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 14, 2018 |
03/14/2018 | G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018 |
03/23/2018 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 445 (effective 7/1/18) |
03/23/2018 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0445) |
Comments
Look, this isn't how regulation works. The effect of this will be to have longer, more complicated regulations, doing the work of 1, 2, 3, or 10 regulations now. At the moment, our regulations are fairly atomic—one regulation defines terms, another makes a policy statement about the application of those terms, another defines the scope of the group of regulations, and a fourth is the regulation with teeth. The effect of this bill will be to force agencies to combine all of these into a single regulation, in order work within a goofy and arbitrary requirement. This will make regulations harder to understand and comply with, not easier.
This was a law written by somebody with zero regulatory experience. It will backfire badly, if passed into law.