Governor Christopher Sununu announced the results of his initiative to reduce regulation in the Granite State yesterday. On the day he took office, Sununu ordered a regulatory review of each agency of state government and imposed a ninety-day moratorium on the adoption of new rules. In a statement issued yesterday, Sununu said the effort identified over sixteen hundred rules that can simply just go away.
In making the announcement, Sununu issued a new Executive Order that requiring agencies to either go through the process of repealing the identified regulations or not renewing them and establishing the Regulatory Reform Steering Committee, which will create task forces that will continue the regulatory review of state government agencies. | More…