Bill Text: CT HB05499 | 2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Promotion Of Business.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-25 - Merged Into SB00453 [HB05499 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2010-HB05499-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5499
February Session, 2010		LCO No. 1810
		*01810_______CE_*
Referred to Committee on Commerce
Introduced by:
(CE)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROMOTION OF BUSINESS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 4-168a of the 2010 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(b) Prior to the adoption of any proposed regulation, each agency shall prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis in which the agency shall [consider utilizing] utilize regulatory methods that will accomplish the objectives of applicable statutes while minimizing adverse impact on small businesses. Such regulatory methods shall be consistent with public health, safety and welfare. The agency shall [consider] use, without limitation, each of the following methods of reducing the impact of the proposed regulation on small businesses:

(1) The establishment of less stringent compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses;

(2) The establishment of less stringent schedules or deadlines for compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses;

(3) The consolidation or simplification of compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses;

(4) The establishment of performance standards for small businesses to replace design or operational standards required in the proposed regulation; and

(5) The exemption of small businesses from all or any part of the requirements contained in the proposed regulation.

Sec. 2. Subdivision (2) of subsection (j) of section 22a-430 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2010):

(2) The commissioner [may] shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to establish other categories of discharges which may be exempted from the requirement to submit plans and specifications under subsection (b) of this section. Such regulations [may] shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (A) Minimum standards for the design and operation of treatment systems for such discharges; and (B) requirements for submission of information concerning such discharges.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2010	4-168a(b)
Sec. 2	October 1, 2010	22a-430(j)(2)

Statement of Purpose:

To modify certain state agency regulations in order to promote business in the state.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]