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The bill gives small entities clearer channels and greater transparency to identify and reduce burdensome federal rules—potentially lowering compliance costs—but it adds reporting and analytic requirements that could divert agency resources and risk disclosure or politicization of regulatory assessments.
Small businesses, local governments, and state governments will have rules with significant economic impacts reviewed for less-burdensome alternatives, potentially lowering compliance costs for many small entities.
Small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions can report burdensome federal actions through a dedicated Hotline, making it easier to flag problems and seek remedies.
Annual reports to the SBA Administrator and Congress will increase transparency about which rules and tariff actions most affect small entities and provide aggregated estimates of regulatory costs and benefits to inform oversight and policy decisions.
Reporting the identities of entities and the specific rules they reported could expose small firms to public scrutiny or competitive harm if sensitive information becomes public.
Requiring agencies or OMB to quantify the 'dollar amount of regulatory benefits' may be contested and could politicize assessments of rules' net impacts, undermining trust in regulatory review and disadvantaging some stakeholders.
New reporting and analysis obligations will require agency and SBA staff time and resources, which could divert funds and attention from other SBA programs or regulatory functions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Establishes an SBA-run hotline and online system for small entities to report federal actions imposing costs and requires initial and annual reports with data, cost estimates, and recommendations.
Introduced December 2, 2025 by Gilbert Ray Cisneros · Last progress December 2, 2025
Creates an SBA-run “Cut the Burden, Keep the Benefits” Hotline and online submission system for small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions to notify the Small Business Administration about Federal Government actions that impose costs or affect them. Requires the SBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy to collect submissions, solicit information and regulatory alternatives for significant-impact rules, and deliver an initial report within one year and annual reports to the SBA Administrator and Congress summarizing notifications, affected sectors and locations, estimated dollar impacts (using OMB/agency numbers or qualitative descriptions), tariff-related Executive actions, recommendations to reduce burdens, and steps the Chief Counsel took in response.