28-05-2025
Healey announces business regulation reductions
BOSTON (WWLP) – Governor Healey is cutting state regulations to make it easier to do business in Massachusetts.
This initiative, dubbed 'Massachusetts Means Business,' looks to cut or amend a quarter of all state business regulations to save business owners time and money.
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The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation is in charge of these cuts and so far, they have committed to updating Division of Banks regulations to clear red tape, overhauling unit pricing for grocery and retail stores, improving access to cosmetology and barbering education, and updating trail signage regulation at ski resorts, among other changes.
One business leader says the main complaint he hears from business owners is about excessive state red tape.
'Just getting their way through the red tape is something that really takes the owner of that small business' eye off the ball of serving their customers,' said President and CEO of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts Jon Hurst.
Getting rid of regulations to bolster the economy sounds like a similar mission to that of DOGE, but the governor says her goals are very different and are meant to benefit consumers.
'What we are doing here is, I think, like, really constructive, thoughtful engagement with the business community. What's working? What isn't working? Let's get rid of what's not working,' Healey said.
Governor Healey shredded a stack of papers at her announcement, representing how much easier it will be to run a business in Massachusetts. These regulation changes deliver on a promise the governor made in her State of the Commonwealth address in January.
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