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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1402
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on COMMERCE
Introduced by:
(CE)
AN ACT MODIFYING THE REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS OF
REGULATIONS AFFECTING SMALL BUSINESSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 4-168a of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2
2025): 3
(b) Prior to or concomitant with the posting of a notice pursuant to 4
section 4-168, each agency shall prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis 5
in which the agency shall identify: 6
(1) The scope and objectives of the proposed regulation; 7
(2) The types of businesses potentially affected by the proposed 8
regulation; 9
(3) The total number of small businesses potentially subject to the 10
proposed regulation; 11
(4) Whether small businesses, in order to comply with the proposed 12
regulation, may be required to: (A) Create, file or issue additional 13
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reports; (B) implement additional recordkeeping procedures, including, 14
but not limited to, the retention of records for a period of time; (C) 15
provide additional administrative oversight; (D) hire additional 16
employees; (E) hire or contract with additional professionals, including, 17
but not limited to, lawyers, accountants, engineers, auditors or 18
inspectors; (F) purchase any product or make any capital investment; 19
(G) conduct additional training, audits or inspections; [or] (H) incur 20
costs or pay additional taxes or fees; (I) modify or provide an additional 21
employee benefit; (J) develop or modify an employee handbook; (K) 22
post a required notice; (L) modify a product manufactured by the small 23
business or the packaging of such product; or (M) develop or modify 24
operating procedures; 25
(5) Whether and to what extent the agency communicated with small 26
businesses or small business organizations in developing the proposed 27
regulation and the regulatory flexibility analysis, if applicable; 28
(6) Whether and to what extent the proposed regulation provides 29
alternative compliance methods for small businesses that will 30
accomplish the objectives of applicable statutes while minimizing 31
adverse impact on small businesses. Such methods shall be consistent 32
with public health, safety and welfare and may include, but not be 33
limited to: 34
(A) The establishment of less stringent compliance or reporting 35
requirements for small businesses; 36
(B) The establishment of less stringent schedules or deadlines for 37
compliance or reporting requirements for small businesses; 38
(C) The consolidation or simplification of compliance or reporting 39
requirements for small businesses; 40
(D) The establishment of performance standards for small businesses 41
to replace design or operational standards required in the proposed 42
regulation; and 43
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(E) The exemption of small businesses from all or any part of the 44
requirements contained in the proposed regulation. 45
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 4-168a(b)
Statement of Purpose:
To expand what may be required in the regulatory flexibility analysis
prepared by agencies prior to the adoption of a proposed regulation.
[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.]