The Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC), the organization responsible for final approval of all state government regulations, recently adopted recommendations from six House committees to repeal outdated and unneeded regulations.
The six committees reviewed 40 prior rulemakings, 103 chapters of regulations, and two subchapters within 10 agencies.
The five IRRC commissioners voted “yes” on recommendations broken down by five agencies at its September 2024 meeting.
The final report included the departments of aging, corrections, health, labor and industry, and state.
House Republicans request that IRRC review scores of regulations under Section 8.1 of the Regulatory Review Act in September 2022.
“In some cases, our research uncovered regulations that existed in the books before IRRC was created in 1982 and had never been reviewed,” House Republican Appropriations Chairman Seth Grove (R –York) said. “The formal requests made by the House Aging and Older Adult Services, Children and Youth, Health, Labor and Industry, Judiciary, and State Government Committees to IRRC covered ten government agencies with questionable regulations. This is just another example of how some government officials talk about ‘getting stuff done,’ but House Republicans get things done.”
During the 2021-22 session Grove, then House State Government chairman, worked with State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R –Center/Mifflin), then House Republican leader, to increase attention on the regulatory process during the COVID-19 pandemic.