The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) is conducting a review of 38 election rules to determine whether they are still necessary. The review is required by state law…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) is proposing permanent rules on election observers and for election protests and recounts. Similar temporary rules were in effect for the 2024…
A bill before the General Assembly would address what's known as regulatory dark matter. It would make executive agencies bring their unseen rules into the light as rules.
Regulatory dark matter is an executive agency's policies, guidelines, memos, or interpretive statements of rules that the agency then enforces as if they are the rules themselves. House Bill 361…
Regulatory dark matter are "rules" we don't know are rules — policies, guidelines, interpretive statements, etc. that state agencies enforce against people as if they were rules. There's no telling…
Today is the last day to comment on a proposed rule from the Division of Employment Security that is based loosely on state and federal laws, an expired Executive Order…
You may remember from School House Rock that the way an idea becomes a law is it is introduced to the legislature as a bill and passed through the legislative…
Rules created by a state agency can carry the full force of law. But in our system of government, legislators are the ones who make law. How are agencies able…
Under Obama, the FDA's "subregulatory" guidance enriched lawyers by enabling their abusive lawsuits, but FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb can stop it just by returning the FDA to proper rulemaking procedures.
Last week I looked into the proposed “rules throttle” in the conference report for House Bill 162. As I see it, it’s an intriguing reform proposal that just needs a…
As state lawmakers gather ideas for the next round of regulatory reform in North Carolina, the John Locke Foundation is highlighting the full chapter devoted to the topic in the…
More brilliance from the libertarian thinkers at Reason.tv. This time they take aim at the EPA’s Rulemaking Matters! contest.