Full Text of HB3887 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Business Assistance and Regulatory Reform | 5 | | Act is amended by adding Section 20 as follows: | 6 | | (20 ILCS 608/20 new) | 7 | | Sec. 20. Review of rules and regulations; reporting. | 8 | | (a) As used in this Section: | 9 | | "Small business" means a corporation or a concern, | 10 | | including its affiliates, that is independently owned and | 11 | | operated, not dominant in its field, and employs fewer than 50 | 12 | | full-time employees or has gross annual sales of less than | 13 | | $4,000,000. For purposes of a specific rule, an agency may | 14 | | define small business to include employment of 50 or more | 15 | | persons if it finds that such a definition is necessary to | 16 | | adapt the rule to the needs and problems of small businesses | 17 | | and organizations. | 18 | | "State agencies" means all officers, boards, commissions, | 19 | | and agencies of the executive branch, including all officers, | 20 | | departments, boards, commissions, agencies, institutions, | 21 | | authorities, universities, and bodies politic and corporate | 22 | | thereof; and administrative units or corporate outgrowths of | 23 | | the State government which are created by or pursuant to |
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| 1 | | statute, other than units of local government and their | 2 | | officers, school districts and boards of election | 3 | | commissioners; all administrative units and corporate | 4 | | outgrowths of the above and as may be created by executive | 5 | | order of the Governor. | 6 | | (b) Each State agency shall scrutinize its rules, | 7 | | administrative regulations, and permitting processes as they | 8 | | pertain to small businesses in order to identify those rules, | 9 | | regulations, and processes that are unreasonable, unduly | 10 | | burdensome, duplicative, or onerous to small businesses. The | 11 | | goal of this review is for each State agency to: | 12 | | (1) recommend changes that will lessen the reporting | 13 | | and paper work requirements on small businesses while still | 14 | | achieving the intent of the underlying statute; | 15 | | (2) eliminate unnecessary or antiquated permit | 16 | | requirements; | 17 | | (3) consolidate duplicative or overlapping permit | 18 | | requirements; | 19 | | (4) simplify overly complex or lengthy application | 20 | | procedures; and | 21 | | (5) expedite time-consuming agency review and approval | 22 | | procedures. | 23 | | (c) Each State agency must conduct its initial review of | 24 | | its rules, regulations, and permitting processes under | 25 | | subsection (b) of this Section within one year of the effective | 26 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, and |
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| 1 | | every 5 years thereafter. At the conclusion of each review, | 2 | | each State agency must issue a report containing the results | 3 | | from its review and any recommendations to the Office of | 4 | | Business Permits and Regulatory Assistance, the Governor, and | 5 | | the General Assembly.
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