Successful red tape relief means a brighter future
More than 1000 days have passed since Gov. Greg Gianforte issued his very first executive order creating the Red Tape Relief Initiative with a mandate to conduct a top-to-bottom review of all regulations and identify unnecessary and overburdensome red tape to repeal. This was an extraordinarily big task to take on because at the time Montana’s regulatory code had ballooned to over 4.7 million words and nearly 60,000 separate regulatory restrictions, as measured by words like “shall,” “must” and “required” in the state’s administrative code. It would have taken a typical person nearly seven weeks to read every rule, assuming 40 hours per week at a normal pace of reading.
Fast forward to 2024 and the Red Tape Initiative has successfully achieved some impressive regulatory relief that is sure to benefit Montana’s economy far into the future.
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