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The bill increases definitional clarity and transparency about Chevron and sunseted rules, helping planning, but it also strengthens agency deference and weakens prompt congressional oversight while risking sudden regulatory expirations and added administrative burdens.
Regulated businesses and government contractors: receive clearer statutory definitions of key terms (e.g., Chevron deference, sunset date, 'rule'), reducing legal uncertainty in administrative proceedings.
Federal employees and the public: agencies must publish a clear, public inventory of court decisions that upheld their rules under Chevron, improving transparency about when Chevron deference has supported agency action.
Taxpayers and regulated stakeholders: identification of which agency rules will receive sunset dates lets affected parties plan for regulatory changes on a predictable timetable.
All Americans (taxpayers and those subject to regulations): reduces Congress's window and ability to disapprove certain agency rules within 60 days, weakening a timely legislative check on agency action.
Taxpayers and citizens: makes it harder for individuals to rely on Congress to block policies they oppose, shifting accountability away from a prompt congressional check to slower or less certain mechanisms.
Regulated businesses and individuals: clarifying and institutionalizing Chevron deference could entrench judicial deference to agencies and limit courts' ability to independently review agency interpretations.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
GAO must list rules upheld under Chevron and assign staggered sunset dates; those listed rules lose the CRA's 60-day disapproval window.
Official title: To provide for the sunset of rules upheld based on Chevron deference.
Introduced January 9, 2025 by Mark E. Green · Last progress January 9, 2025
Requires the Government Accountability Office to list existing federal agency rules that courts upheld using Chevron deference and assigns an automatic, staggered "sunset" date to each listed rule so they expire in sequence. It also removes the normal 60-day window for Congress to use the Congressional Review Act to disapprove those identified rules, while leaving other CRA procedures intact. The bill takes effect on enactment for the GAO reporting timeline (GAO must publish the list within 180 days) and creates an administrative expiration schedule where the newest rule for each agency expires 30 days after publication and earlier rules for that agency expire in 30-day increments before that date.