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The bill increases transparency and oversight of existing regulations by requiring public comment solicitation and detailed cost/paperwork reporting, but it imposes new administrative burdens and legal risks—particularly for small agencies and stakeholders—that could raise implementation costs or slow some reviews.
Taxpayers, small-business owners, nonprofits, and the public gain greater transparency and participation because agencies must solicit public comments and produce qualitative and quantitative summaries and analyses before rule reviews.
Taxpayers and small-business owners get clearer information about regulatory burdens because agencies must report compliance costs and paperwork-hour estimates since a rule took effect, improving oversight and accountability.
Taxpayers and small-business owners may see more timely reconsideration of outdated rules because the bill limits review extensions to "not more than one year," which can speed periodic reviews.
Federal agencies and their employees will face increased administrative workload and implementation costs to compile cost data, paperwork-hour counts, and comment analyses, which could divert staff time and potentially slow some rule reviews.
Smaller or resource-constrained agencies may struggle to meet the new reporting and analysis requirements, risking delays, reduced capacity for other regulatory work, or uneven implementation across agencies.
Small businesses and nonprofits could face legal uncertainty because mandated quantification of compliance costs and paperwork hours may generate contested estimates and subsequent legal challenges.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Tightens and clarifies periodic regulatory review: agencies must solicit and analyze public comments, report rule compliance costs and paperwork hours, and limit review extensions to one year.
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications to how agencies conduct periodic reviews of agency rules, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 30, 2026 by Dan Meuser · Last progress March 30, 2026
Requires federal agencies to strengthen how they review existing regulations by adding public-comment solicitations, producing summaries and analyses of comments before review, and reporting the cost and paperwork burdens of rules since they took effect. It also limits extensions of periodic reviews to no more than one additional year rather than allowing repeated one‑year extensions up to five years.