Red Tape Reduction Act

 

"...this office will help small businesses break through regulatory roadblocks. If a small business needs help with a permit or license, this office will help.
If a company is looking to locate in New Mexico and needs research, this office will help. The big corporations have teams of lawyers and accountants to help them. It’s the small businesses – the mom and pop shops – the small start-ups that get lost in the layers of red tape.

 

We will help them and in doing so, send a loud and clear message that New Mexico is open for business. One of the greatest and costliest challenges small businesses face is the fact that each agency creates its own maze of red tape. When a small business needs to get a permit from one state agency, they must abide by one process. And when that same small business needs a permit from another state agency, the process is completely different and they have to jump through a whole new set of hoops. So, I propose standardizing these administrative practices by passing the Red Tape Reduction Act.

 

This will help small businesses understand regulatory guidelines and make complying with them less expensive, less time-consuming and less complicated. Time is money. And the more money a small business saves, the more employees they can hire. That’s why the very first executive order I signed created a small business task force to review regulations over the next 90 days. We will maintain common-sense protections for consumers, workers and our environment.

 

Rational regulations will remain, but irrational red tape will be cut. " (State of the State Address, Governor Martinez, 1/18/2011