Hanna Supports Improvements to Regulatory Flexibility Act
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Urges the House to quickly pass bill to lessen government burden on small businesses
U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today supported legislation in the House Small Business Committee that would help protect small businesses from overly burdensome government regulations.
Rep. Hanna is a cosponsor of H.R. 2542, the Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act of 2013, which would ensure careful consideration of the consequences of rulemaking by removing loopholes that agencies have used to avoid compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980.
More than 30 years ago, RFA was established to require federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small businesses, and if the impact is significant, consider alternatives that are less burdensome before the rule is finalized.
Rep. Hanna, who owned and operated a business in upstate New York for more than 30 years before coming to Congress, said not all regulations are bad, but many are unnecessarily burdensome for small businesses. He pointed out that small businesses shoulder regulatory costs that are much higher than those for large businesses.
"Keeping up to speed and coping with federal regulations is one of the greatest challenges faced by small businesses each and every day,"said Rep. Richard Hanna, Chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce. "The Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act would close loopholes so agencies dutifully assess the impact of their regulations on small businesses and consider alternatives that are less burdensome before the rule is finalized.
"In too many instances, Congress must step in after the fact and grant regulatory relief to our small firms that employ so many of our family, friends and neighbors. I look forward pushing this bill forward to passage so that we can protect small businesses from overly burdensome regulations before they are finalized -- instead of cleaning up the mess afterward."
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