Colorado Owners Seek Regulatory Relief

Date: February 27, 2015

Bill would give a warning rather than a fine for minor offenses.

As a small business owner, Susan Kochevar has to cope with an enormous number of regulations. Accidentally overlook just one of them, and she could face a serious fine.

“You can’t even keep up with the new ones, much less the old ones,” says Kochevar, owner of 88 Drive-in Theatre in Commerce City, Colorado. “There’s just no keeping up.”

A bill introduced in the Colorado legislature would require state agencies to give written warnings, rather than fines, to small businesses that commit minor violations of new rules for the first time.

House Bill 1065, the Regulatory Reform Act of 2015, is backed by NFIB. “We will work hard in supporting this bill,” said Tony Gagliardi, NFIB state director for Colorado.

The bill applies to businesses of 100 or fewer employees, and the violations can only involve issues that don’t affect the safety of the public or workers.

The bill was introduced by state Rep. Libby Szabo, who is a small business owner.

“Since I started running regulatory reform legislation three years ago, there have been tens of thousands of pages of new rules piled on to Colorado’s businesses,” said Szabo in a statement. “This is common sense legislation and it’s time we practice what we preach and start having government work with businesses instead of against them.”


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