Sunset Chevron Act

This bill targets federal rules that were upheld in court because judges deferred to an agency’s reading of the law, known as “Chevron deference.” It directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish, within 180 days, a list of those still-active rules and the court decisions that upheld them. The list must be grouped by agency and include a “sunset date” for each rule. The newest rule for each agency would expire 30 days after the list is published; each older rule from that agency would then expire in 30‑day steps after that, creating a rolling phase-out.

It also changes how Congress can review these rules under the Congressional Review Act by removing the usual 60‑day time limit for filing a disapproval resolution for the rules on this list. In short, once listed, these rules would begin to automatically expire on a set schedule, and Congress could move to overturn them without the normal timing restriction.

Key points

• Who is affected: Federal agencies that issued the rules; businesses and communities regulated by those rules; and the public that relies on them.
• What changes: GAO must list rules upheld using Chevron deference; each listed rule gets a set expiration date, staggered by 30 days within each agency; Congress can seek to overturn these rules without the usual 60‑day filing window.
• When: GAO publishes the list within 180 days after the law takes effect; the first expirations begin 30 days after that list is published, then proceed every 30 days for earlier rules from the same agency.