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The bill increases transparency, periodic review, and judicial enforceability to reduce outdated regulatory burdens on businesses, but it risks temporarily undermining essential protections and raising litigation and administrative costs.
Small-business owners and other regulated entities will get more predictable, periodic rule reviews because agencies must review existing and new rules within 10 years, which can remove outdated or unduly burdensome regulations.
Taxpayers and small-business owners gain stronger judicial remedies because courts must enjoin enforcement of rules for which agencies failed to comply with review requirements, increasing enforceability of agency compliance duties.
Small businesses obtain clearer transparency because agencies must publish annually which rules do not significantly impact them and the justification for that determination.
The public could lose timely protections because courts enjoining enforcement of noncompliant rules may render essential health, safety, or environmental regulations unenforceable until agencies legally reissue them.
Taxpayers and agencies will face increased litigation risk and administrative burden, which can slow rulemaking and raise costs for legal defense and for reissuing or updating rules.
Removing the initial 180-day plan requirement could reduce early transparency and delay visible accountability of agency review schedules, making it harder for the public and regulated parties to track upcoming changes.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Mandates 10‑year periodic reviews of regulations, annual Federal Register lists of rules with no significant small‑entity impact, and requires courts to bar enforcement if reviews were not done.
Introduced July 25, 2025 by David Schweikert · Last progress July 25, 2025
Requires federal agencies to follow a stricter timetable and publication rules for reviewing existing and new regulations and gives courts a clear power to stop enforcement of a rule if the agency failed to carry out the required review. Agencies must review rules that existed at enactment within 10 years and must review rules adopted after enactment within 10 years of final publication, remove an earlier 180‑day planning step, and publish each year a Federal Register list of rules found not to have significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities along with the justification for that conclusion. If a court finds an agency did not comply with the review requirement for a rule, it must enter an order prohibiting enforcement of that rule.