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Transparent Access to All Regulations Online
The confusing, redundant, and endless bureaucratic red tape that binds small business owners and entrepreneurs in layers of legal compliance costs Americans countless hours and billions of dollars every year. Worse, these job-crushing regulations are often promoted by the biggest and most powerful companies working in concert with government agencies to eliminate competition and discourage innovation.
Hard-working Americans deserve better than opaque barriers to success.
Government transparency requirements help individuals and businesses challenge the status quo and fight against burdensome and unnecessary over-regulation.
Creating a centralized website for all agency public meetings, including rulemaking sessions, gives the public an opportunity to find information that might be buried in meeting agendas or minutes.
These six guidelines will give every citizen the opportunity to pursue their American Dream and incentivize government agencies to serve The People, rather than special interests.
- Comprehensive Transparency: All documents required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), rulemaking activities, regulations, documents, videos, guidance, and policy statements should be published to a centralized website in a computer-readable format that is easily and freely available to the public.
- Archived Rules: Deleted rules should be archived online in the same location as the state rules register, clearly marked as no longer in effect but still accessible for reference.
- Meeting Agenda Identification: Each agency meeting agenda must be published online in an easily accessible format and clearly indicate whether rulemaking actions may occur—giving the public an opportunity to participate.
- Public Participation: To ensure the public can fully and easily participate in meetings, agencies must provide online audio/video conferencing at board meetings and formal public hearings, and make recordings available online for free.
- Online Public Comments: States should encourage public participation by establishing an online platform to submit public comments outside of meetings.
- Indefinite Comment Availability: All comments and agency responses should be published online in an easily accessible format and remain there indefinitely.