Posted on 04/15/2019 4:05:09 PM PDT by Twotone
The most monumental thing the 2019 Idaho Legislature did is what it didn’t do: The Legislature didn’t reauthorize thousands of pages of agency regulations. Those regulations, euphemistically called administrative rules, will expire this summer. The regulations cover every aspect of Idaho life, from public education to professional licenses. There’s a rule for just about everything, and those rules have the full force of law.
The Legislature’s decision to do nothing is more or less the product of a spat between the House and the Senate, but the end result is still fantastic. Gov. Brad Little’s administration will need to reinstate each regulation, one program at a time, hopefully leaving a lot on the cutting room floor. (As a side note, I think some regulations can’t or shouldn’t be reinstated immediately because they don’t constitute emergencies, as defined by state law.)
The reinstatement, or better still, elimination, of regulations could be Little’s chance to shine, offering his administration a chance to leave a mark on Idaho’s regulatory landscape. Little has often complained that Idaho has too many regulations. He’s regularly indicated that his administration would like to trim the “musts,” “shalls,” “shall nots,” and other regulatory mandates on Idahoans, much of which has been a cumulative result many years of more additions than subtractions from Idaho’s administrative code. So far, Little has signaled his seriousness about the endeavor. He’s hired Alex Adams, formerly a regulation-cutter at the Board of Pharmacy, to run the governor’s budget office, the Division of Financial Management. Little, with the blessing of the Legislature, has given Adams control over administrative rules.
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Which legislature? Oh, Idaho’s. Should have been put in the title.
What a great opportunity for Idaho to nullify rule by unelected fascist bureaucrats. Do it. Make it a model for every state in the union.
I guess the Idaho Freedom Foundation doesn’t feel the need to do that. And I don’t want to change a title so people searching on a title get a bad result.
I’m all for this. Idaho is one of the freest states in the USA but bureaucratic incrementalism is inevitable because that’s all the bureaucrats know how to do. Rip up the rule book and let my people go!
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