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2017 SESSION
SB 1449 Red Tape Reduction Commission; established, report.
Introduced by: Amanda F. Chase | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Red Tape Reduction Commission; review of regulatory requirements; report. Creates the Red Tape Reduction Commission (the Commission) to develop and maintain a state regulatory baseline of all current state regulatory requirements, with the initial baseline to be completed by January 1, 2019. The bill defines a regulatory requirement as any action required to be taken or information required to be provided in accordance with a statute or regulation in order to access government services or operate and conduct business and excludes requirements that are necessary to conform to changes in Virginia statutory law or the appropriation act where no agency discretion is involved or to meet requirements of federal law or regulations. The bill also provides that after the regulatory baseline has been established, any subsequent regulatory requirement proposed by an agency that is not included in the initial state regulatory baseline is considered a new regulatory requirement and requires the approval of the Commission before it may be enacted. In addition, the bill provides for the Commission to review current state regulatory requirements and provide recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on measures to reduce the baseline regulatory requirements. The Commission must submit a report to the Governor and General Assembly by November 1, 2017, on (i) the organizational structure of the Commission, (ii) duties of staff, and (iii) guidelines for determining what constitutes a regulatory requirement. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/16/17 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103899D pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104871D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 01/30/17 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 17104871D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/06/17 Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104871D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/16/17 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103899D
- 01/16/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/30/17 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 01/30/17 Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104871D-S1
- 01/30/17 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 17104871D-S1
- 01/30/17 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/02/17 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (11-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/06/17 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/17 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/17 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 17104871D-S1
- 02/06/17 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/06/17 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/06/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB1449ES1
- 02/06/17 Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104871D-ES1
- 02/07/17 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/09/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/17 House: Read first time
- 02/09/17 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/14/17 House: Reported from General Laws (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/14/17 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/21/17 House: Left in Appropriations