BILL NUMBER: AB 1051	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Feuer

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to state government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1051, as introduced, Feuer. State government: economic growth.
   Existing law authorizes various entities to regulate business
within the state.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that promotes the growth of small businesses by ensuring
agencies design regulations that take care to avoid unduly burdensome
or duplicative constraints on small business growth while
maintaining consumer, worker, and environmental protections.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) California's approximately 3.6 million small businesses are
the backbone of California's $1.8 trillion economy.
   (b) The vast majority, or approximately 97 percent, of private
firm employers in California are small businesses.
   (c) The growth of small businesses is vital to California's
economic recovery.
   (d) Small businesses have different needs than large businesses,
but have less of an ability to impact the formulation of regulations
than large businesses.
  SEC. 2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that promotes the growth of small businesses by ensuring agencies
design regulations that take care to avoid unduly burdensome or
duplicative constraints on small business growth while maintaining
consumer, worker, and environmental protections.