periodic review

Each government agency and program is created to do a job. Legislators should regularly review those jobs and how programs perform them. Regulatory sunset reviews provide a good model to emulate.

The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published a rule inspired and informed in part by a significant regulatory reform in North Carolina long promoted by the John Locke Foundation: sunset with periodic review.

One thing about the administrative state in North Carolina is that it carries on regardless of the party in power. Here’s a graph of the annual page counts in the…

A bill now before the state Senate, House Bill 590, would make a simple but sensible adjustment to an already good regulatory policy. The Regulatory Reform Act of…

Republicans made many changes when they came into the majority of the General Assembly, but one of their most important is one of the least known. That is their dedication…

When the General Assembly passed the Regulatory Reform Act of 2013, legislators gave the state an effective, empirically tested red-tape reduction measure: sunset provisions with periodic review. At that…

Few people noticed, but in 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly enacted a major reform: a sunset provision with periodic review for state rules.1 It’s a reform with proven…