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The bill promotes regulatory pruning, transparency, and stronger judicial remedies for regulated parties, but at the risk of creating temporary gaps in protections, higher administrative costs, and more litigation that could disrupt rulemaking.
Small-business owners and taxpayers will see agencies review outdated or unnecessary regulations every 10 years, which can reduce compliance costs and regulatory burdens on businesses and consumers.
Regulated parties (especially small businesses) gain a faster, enforceable remedy because courts can block enforcement of rules agencies failed to review, strengthening legal checks on unlawful or procedurally-deficient regulations.
Small-business owners benefit from increased transparency because agencies must publish annually which rules do not significantly impact small entities and explain why, making it easier to understand regulatory obligations.
Taxpayers and the public could face gaps in health, safety, or environmental protections if courts stay enforcement of rules for procedural review failures, leaving protections unenforced until agencies reissue rules.
Taxpayers and federal employees may bear higher administrative costs because agencies could divert staff and resources to frequent rule reviews and extra Federal Register reporting, potentially delaying substantive rulemaking.
State governments, small businesses, and agencies could face increased litigation and legal costs because automatic enforcement prohibitions for missed procedural reviews may encourage challenges aimed at vacating rules, raising regulatory uncertainty.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires 10-year periodic review of federal rules, annual publication of small-entity impact lists, and lets courts prohibit enforcement of rules not timely reviewed.
Introduced July 25, 2025 by David Schweikert · Last progress July 25, 2025
Amends federal rule-review law to require agencies to review all existing rules within 10 years of enactment and to review any rule within 10 years of its final publication; replaces a prior one-time planning requirement with ongoing periodic review obligations. Requires agencies to publish each year a list in the Federal Register of rules that do not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities and the reasons for that finding. Adds a judicially enforceable remedy: if a court finds an agency failed to meet the review requirement for a rule, the court must enter an order prohibiting enforcement of that rule.