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Hwang is the ranking leader of the legislative Government Administration & Elections Committee.
The legislation will eliminate pages of state regulations that have been identified as obsolete, duplicative, excessively burdensome, or otherwise ineffective or unnecessary, in a major effort to make Connecticut’s regulations more streamlined, readable and user-friendly for citizens, especially small businesses.
Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the legislation into law on Wednesday, June 11.
“It’s state government’s obligation to regularly conduct reviews of state regulations in order to make it more efficient, more responsive, and more user-friendly for all of its citizens,” Hwang said. “This is a good first step toward making government work for the people and not against them.”
The bill is Public Act 14-187, An Act Eliminating Unnecessary Government Regulation. Some examples of regulations being eliminated include:
• An outdated and discriminatory Department of Labor regulation of unknown age that prohibits women from working alone between the hours of 1 and 6 a.m.
• Several outdated and conflicting regulations contained within the Department of Administrative Services that have been unnecessary since the adoption of the state building code in the late 1980s
• A regulation regarding the grading of Connecticut-grown apples that duplicates USDA regulations and has never been used.
• Multiple Department of Economic & Community Development regulations dealing with programs repealed by the legislature many years ago, some as far back as the late 1980s.
• A Department of Energy & Environmental Protection regulation setting forth detailed standards on the use of a pesticide that has not been used in Connecticut since the late 1970s and is otherwise regulated by the department’s more up-to-date pesticide regulations
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