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The bill aims to reduce regulatory burdens and increase transparency for governments and businesses but does so by imposing numeric repeal requirements that can delay or eliminate protections, prioritize short-term cost metrics over long-term benefits, and add administrative costs to agencies.
State and local governments and small businesses will face fewer new regulatory costs and potentially lower compliance burdens because agencies must repeal related rules before issuing new ones.
Taxpayers and Congress will get greater transparency into agency rulemaking because agencies must publish repealed rules and report reviews and aggregate rule counts to Congress.
Taxpayers and state governments may face slower or blocked health and safety protections because agencies must repeal many related rules before issuing a new rule, delaying rulemaking and potentially leaving harms unaddressed.
Taxpayers may lose environmental and other targeted safeguards if agencies repeal useful older rules to meet numeric reduction targets, weakening public protections.
Taxpayers and small businesses may be harmed because the bill incentivizes focusing on short-term cost equivalence (per OIRA certification) instead of allowing rules with larger long-term net benefits.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 23, 2025 by David J. Taylor · Last progress January 23, 2025
Requires federal agencies to eliminate existing rules before issuing new ones: an agency may not issue a new rule unless it has repealed at least ten related rules. For major rules, the agency must repeal ten related rules and ensure the combined cost savings of those repeals is at least as large as the cost of the new major rule, with the OIRA Administrator certifying that cost condition. Agencies must publish repealed rules in the Federal Register. The bill applies to rules that impose costs or responsibilities on non‑governmental persons or on State/local governments, but it excludes internal agency management and procurement rules and rules being revised to reduce burden. Agencies must review their rulebooks and report costly, duplicative, or outdated rules to OMB and Congress within 90 days; the President must report to Congress within five years on the number of rules in effect and progress on reductions.