Overview
- The governor signed an executive order on Wednesday directing state agencies to review existing regulations, fees, fines, reports, boards and commissions for repeal or simplification.
- The administration used Stanford University’s RegLab AI tool to scan rules and said the analysis, combined with outside partners, surfaced thousands of candidate reforms for agencies to evaluate.
- A public comment drive earlier this year produced nearly 4,000 suggestions that state officials say have been fed into the review process.
- The initiative builds on EXPRESS NY actions in June that produced about 50 initial reforms across 22 agencies and included changes to licensing, housing review and fee reductions aimed at saving time and money for residents.
- Actual eliminations or changes will require agency-level review, possible notice-and-comment rulemaking or legislative action, meaning outcomes and savings will depend on each agency’s decisions.