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Executive order seeks to eliminate unnecessary regulatory requirements on businesses and local governments promulgated by Governor Paterson

Executive order seeks to eliminate unnecessary regulatory requirements on businesses and local governments promulgated by Governor Paterson
Source: Press release issued by the Office of the Governor

Governor David A. Paterson signed Executive Order No. 7.25.*

Described as a major step towards modernizing the State?s regulatory framework and eliminating regulations that are "onerous or outdated," this Executive Order creates a Regulatory Review and Reform Program. Its mission: "eliminate or revise antiquated and burdensome regulations on businesses, local governments, health care providers and other regulated entities, and focus the State?s regulations on those necessary to retain and strengthen critical protections for public health, safety and welfare."

Executive Order 25 establishes the Review Program as follows:

1. A Review Committee consisting of the Secretary to the Governor, the Counsel to the Governor, the Director of State Operations, the Director of the Budget and the Director of the Governor?s Office of Regulatory Reform will be oversee and coordinated the Review Program and the Committee will, from time to time, designate particular State agencies as ?Participating Agencies.?

2. The Committee will seek comments from interested parties, affected constituencies and the public concerning the existing regulations and their impact on such entities. There will be a 60-day period within which such comments may be submitted.

3. The Participating Agencies, together with the Review Committee, will assess the received responses and comments, as well as any criticism or comment and identify for review those regulations that have generated the most widespread or substantive criticism and opposition.

4. Within 45 days of the designation of regulations for review, the Participating Agencies will complete their analysis of such regulations, "using recognized cost benefit principles established by the Governor?s Office of Regulatory Reform and the State Administrative Procedures Act and submit a report and recommendation to the Review Committee."

5. Upon its receipt of the report and recommendation, the Review Committee is to take appropriate action. The Review Committee is also charged to report on its progress to the Governor on a periodic basis.

The Executive Order designates the Department of Agriculture and Markets, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Health, the Department of Labor, the Department of State, the Department of Taxation & Finance and the State Liquor Authority as the first ?Participating Agencies.? Other agencies will be designated by the Review Committee on a periodic basis until a review of all agency regulations is complete.

* Executive Order 7.25 indicates that this is the 25th Executive Order issued by Governor Paterson. Executive Orders issued by previous governors are designated 1.xx, 2.xx, 3.xx, etc., commencing with Executive Order 1.1 issued by the late Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

The text of Executive Order No. 25 is available at: http://www.ny.gov/governor/executive_orders/exeorders/eo_25.html

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).