Sunset Reviews

The General Assembly finds:

• State government actions have produced a substantial increase in numbers of agencies, growth of programs, and proliferation of rules and regulations and that the whole process developed without sufficient legislative oversight, regulatory accountability, or a system of checks and balances.

• Regulatory agencies tend to become unnecessarily restrictive.

• By establishing a system for the termination, continuation, or reestablishment of such agencies and by providing for the analysis and evaluation of such agencies to determine the least restrictive regulation consistent with the public interest, it will be in a better position to evaluate the need for the continued existence of existing and future regulatory bodies.