The bill had passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee early in 2025 on a partisan vote; the filing of the report suggests that it will be called to a House vote soon. Image: Diego Grandi/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffA bill (HR-580) has been readied for voting in the House that is the latest in a series of efforts to add new limits to federal agency regulatory activities to those in the 1995 Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, following the filing of a report asserting that changes are “increasingly necessary.”
The bill would require federal agencies to “prepare, take public comment on, and publish regulatory impact analyses—including analyses of costs, benefits, alternatives, disproportionate impacts, and effects on jobs–for major rules that mandate economic impacts of $100 million or more, present major increases in costs or prices, or have significant adverse effects on competition, employment, or markets,” the report says.
Initial assessments would have to be published in the Federal Register for public comment when agencies issue notices of proposed rulemaking, while final analyses would have to accompany notices of final rulemaking. The bill also would require earlier and enhanced public participation in major rulemakings; generally require final major rules to lower costs by maximizing net benefits; and bring independent agencies under UMRA’s requirements.
It further would broaden the use of congressional budgetary rules to block rule-making and authorize judicial review of agency compliance with the bill’s requirements to analyze costs, benefits, and regulatory alternatives and choose the alternative that maximizes net benefits.
The bill had passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee early in 2025 on a partisan vote; the filing of the report suggests that it will be called to a House vote soon.
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