"Office." The Independent Office of the Repealer.
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Section 2. Section 8.1 of the act is amended to read:
Section 8.1. Existing regulations.
The commission, on its motion or at the request of any person
or member of the General Assembly, may review any existing
regulation which has been in effect for at least three years. If
a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives
requests a review of an existing regulation, the commission
shall perform the review and shall assign it high priority. The
commission may submit recommendations to an agency recommending
changes in existing regulations if it finds the existing
regulations to be contrary to the public interest under the
criteria established in section 5.2. The commission may also
make recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor
for statutory changes if the commission finds that any existing
regulation may be contrary to the public interest. Unless
prohibited by the laws of this Commonwealth, at the time an
agency promulgates a new regulation, the agency shall identify
at least two existing regulations for repeal.
Section 3 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 12.2. Independent Office of the Repealer.
(a) There is established a nonpartisan Independent Office of
the Repealer within the Independent Regulatory Review
Commission.
(b) The office shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) Adopt logical, quantitative and qualitative rules to
determine whether an existing statute or regulation of the
Commonwealth is:
(i) Unreasonable, unduly burdensome, detrimental to
economic well-being, duplicative, onerous, defective or
in conflict with another statute or regulation.
(ii) Defying a common sense approach to government.
(2) Perform a systematic review of existing statutes and
regulations of this Commonwealth in accordance with the rules
adopted for review under this act.
(3) Identify existing statutes and regulations which may
be appropriate for legislative and executive agency
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