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The bill gives small entities a formal, transparent way to flag burdensome federal actions and pushes for data-driven regulatory changes to lower compliance costs, at the risk of encouraging deregulatory bias, exposing complainants, and requiring SBA resource trade-offs.
Small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments gain a direct Hotline to report burdensome federal actions, increasing their ability to seek relief or alternative regulatory approaches.
Federal agencies and Congress receive annual reports identifying the most burdensome actions and recommended alternatives, creating information and pressure that can lead to regulatory changes and lower compliance costs for affected entities.
Policymakers are required to quantify and publish regulatory benefits and tariff-related costs, improving transparency and evidence for balancing policy benefits against burdens on taxpayers and small entities.
Emphasizing reduction of burdens may bias advocacy and policymaking toward deregulation, potentially leading to undervaluation of protections for health, safety, or the environment.
Entities that submit notifications could be identified in published, disaggregated reports, exposing small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments to public scrutiny or political pressure.
The SBA Office of Advocacy must allocate staff time and other resources to operate the Hotline and produce annual reports, potentially diverting resources from other support services for small businesses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the SBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy to create a hotline and annual reporting system to collect small-entity complaints about burdensome Government actions and recommend alternatives.
Creates a public "Cut the Burden, Keep the Benefits Hotline" run by the SBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy to receive notifications from small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions about Government actions (rules, statutes, executive orders, tariffs, proclamations, etc.) that create economic burdens. The Chief Counsel must maintain accessible submission methods (email, website/form, phone), consider less-burdensome regulatory alternatives for actions affecting many small entities, and report to the SBA Administrator and Congress with an initial report within 1 year and annual reports thereafter. The reports must summarize hotline activity, list the most-reported Government actions, provide disaggregated summaries of notifications, include quantified regulatory benefits for rule actions as reported by OMB or issuing agencies, tally tariff-related notifications and cost summaries, recommend burden-reduction steps, and describe actions the Chief Counsel took in response. The hotline must be established within 180 days of enactment.
Official title: To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a hotline to receive notifications of burdensome Government actions, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 2, 2025 by Gilbert Ray Cisneros · Last progress December 2, 2025