Currently, small businesses must comply with complex and often confusing federal regulations in areas as diverse as taxes, the environment and workplace safety.
Many small businesses find the compliance process both time-consuming and costly.
Burns introduced his legislation to provide non-punitive and confidential assistance to businesses with questions about current regulations. Under my legislation, if businesses have any questions about government regulations, they can go to their local SBDC and ask without fear of anyone swarming in on their businesses looking for violations. There are 950 SBDCs nationwide that serve 600,000 growing businesses every year. Montana has nine SBDCs in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Colstrip, Great Falls, Havre, Kalispell, Missoula and Wolf Point.