Advocacy News – March 13, 2025
The Michigan Chamber was joined today by Peter Ruddell, a partner at Honigman Law Firm and MI Chamber board member, in front of the House Rules Committee to discuss the rulemaking process in Michigan and challenges it sometimes poses to the business community.
- While appropriate rules and regulations — that create a level and fair playing field — can be an important tool in how we govern society, it feels like today businesses are faced with a complex and often convoluted regulatory system that is difficult to navigate. In turn, making it difficult to have the certainty and consistency they need to invest in the state.
Why this matters: House Republicans have voiced a strong interest in looking at ways state agencies have been burdensome or a direct challenge to economic growth. Some of the key issue areas have included rulemaking and environmental permitting. The MI Chamber intends to make use of this renewed interest to push for reforms that can better support business attraction and investment, as well as maximize taxpayer dollars.
What we’re doing: The MI Chamber is establishing a workgroup that will focus on policies that can promote a more deliberative and transparent process to rulemaking, as well as some mechanisms by which the legislature could play a more robust role in transparency and oversight.
- Often in the legislative process, rulemaking is granted so that a given department can further detail the implementation of it. The MI Chamber workgroup intends to focus on whether that rulemaking authority is appropriately scoped and curtailed to only what is necessary, and other potential mechanisms by which industry stakeholders can identify areas where a certain set of proposed or current rules is considered particularly onerous and ripe for review.
We want to hear from you: If you are interested in exploring a policy-driven approach to making Michigan’s regulatory climate competitive with surrounding states and want to participate in the workgroup, contact Mike Alaimo.