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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 142
To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major
rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a
joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY3, 2025
Mrs. C
AMMACK(for herself, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana, Mr.
B
ERGMAN, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. FULCHER, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr.
B
EANof Florida, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr.
L
ANGWORTHY, Mr. MOOREof Alabama, Mr. MOOREof Utah, Mr. CLINE,
Mr. R
OUZER, Mr. VANDREW, Mr. MEUSER, Mr. ROSE, Mr. CARTERof
Georgia, Mr. F
LOOD, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr.
E
MMER, Mr. PERRY, Mr. FEENSTRA, Mr. JOHNSONof South Dakota,
Mr. S
MITHof Nebraska, Mr. BACON, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. THOMPSONof
Pennsylvania, Mr. P
ALMER, Mr. BIGGSof Arizona, Mr. NUNNof Iowa,
Mr. C
ISCOMANI, Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. CRANK, Mr.
S
CHMIDT, Mr. PFLUGER, Mr. GRIFFITH, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. MASSIE,
Mr. B
URCHETT, Mr. MILLS, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. ROY, Mr. CLOUD, Ms.
G
REENEof Georgia, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. GILLof Texas, Mr. BARR, Mr.
H
UDSON, Mr. TONYGONZALESof Texas, Mr. ISSA, Mr. DONALDS, Mr.
M
ANN, Mr. ESTES, Mr. BARRETT, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. SCHWEIKERT,
Mr. B
ABIN, Mr. LUCAS, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mrs. MILLER
of West Virginia, Mr. V
ANORDEN, Mr. CARTERof Texas, Mr. HAR-
RIGAN, Ms. FEDORCHAK, and Mr. WEBERof Texas) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and
in addition to the Committees on Rules, and the Budget, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
A BILL
To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide
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that major rules of the executive branch shall have no
force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is
enacted into law.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Regulations from the 4
Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 6
The purpose of this Act is to increase accountability 7
for and transparency in the Federal regulatory process. 8
Section 1 of article I of the United States Constitution 9
grants all legislative powers to Congress. Over time, Con-10
gress has excessively delegated its constitutional charge 11
while failing to conduct appropriate oversight and retain 12
accountability for the content of the laws it passes. By 13
requiring a vote in Congress, the REINS Act will result 14
in more carefully drafted and detailed legislation, an im-15
proved regulatory process, and a legislative branch that 16
is truly accountable to the American people for the laws 17
imposed upon them. 18
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGENCY RULE-19
MAKING. 20
Chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 21
to read as follows: 22
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‘‘CHAPTER 8—CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW 1
OF AGENCY RULEMAKING 2
‘‘Sec.
‘‘801. Congressional review.
‘‘802. Congressional approval procedure for major rules.
‘‘803. Congressional disapproval procedure for nonmajor rules.
‘‘804. Definitions.
‘‘805. Judicial review.
‘‘806. Exemption for monetary policy.
‘‘807. Effective date of certain rules.
‘‘§ 801. Congressional review 3
‘‘(a)(1)(A) Before a rule may take effect, the Federal 4
agency promulgating such rule shall publish in the Federal 5
Register a list of information on which the rule is based, 6
including data, scientific and economic studies, and cost- 7
benefit analyses, and identify how the public can access 8
such information online, and shall submit to each House 9
of the Congress and to the Comptroller General a report 10
containing— 11
‘‘(i) a copy of the rule; 12
‘‘(ii) a concise general statement relating to the 13
rule; 14
‘‘(iii) a classification of the rule as a major or 15
nonmajor rule, including an explanation of the clas-16
sification specifically addressing each criteria for a 17
major rule contained within subparagraphs (A) 18
through (C) of section 804(2); 19
‘‘(iv) a list of any other related regulatory ac-20
tions intended to implement the same statutory pro-21
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vision or regulatory objective as well as the indi-1
vidual and aggregate economic effects of those ac-2
tions; and 3
‘‘(v) the proposed effective date of the rule. 4
‘‘(B) On the date of the submission of the report 5
under subparagraph (A), the Federal agency promulgating 6
the rule shall submit to the Comptroller General and make 7
available to each House of Congress— 8
‘‘(i) a complete copy of the cost-benefit analysis 9
of the rule, if any, including an analysis of any jobs 10
added or lost, differentiating between public and pri-11
vate sector jobs; 12
‘‘(ii) the agency’s actions pursuant to sections 13
603, 604, 605, 607, and 609 of this title; 14
‘‘(iii) the agency’s actions pursuant to sections 15
202, 203, 204, and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates 16
Reform Act of 1995; and 17
‘‘(iv) any other relevant information or require-18
ments under any other Act and any relevant Execu-19
tive orders. 20
‘‘(C) Upon receipt of a report submitted under sub-21
paragraph (A), each House shall provide copies of the re-22
port to the chairman and ranking member of each stand-23
ing committee with jurisdiction under the rules of the 24
House of Representatives or the Senate to report a bill 25
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to amend the provision of law under which the rule is 1
issued. 2
‘‘(2)(A) The Comptroller General shall provide a re-3
port on each major rule to the committees of jurisdiction 4
by the end of 15 calendar days after the submission or 5
publication date. The report of the Comptroller General 6
shall include an assessment of the agency’s compliance 7
with procedural steps required by paragraph (1)(B) and 8
an assessment of whether the major rule imposes any new 9
limits or mandates on private-sector activity. 10
‘‘(B) Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Comp-11
troller General by providing information relevant to the 12
Comptroller General’s report under subparagraph (A). 13
‘‘(3) A major rule relating to a report submitted 14
under paragraph (1) shall take effect upon enactment of 15
a joint resolution of approval described in section 802 or 16
as provided for in the rule following enactment of a joint 17
resolution of approval described in section 802, whichever 18
is later. 19
‘‘(4) A nonmajor rule shall take effect as provided 20
by section 803 after submission to Congress under para-21
graph (1). 22
‘‘(5) If a joint resolution of approval relating to a 23
major rule is not enacted within the period provided in 24
subsection (b)(2), then a joint resolution of approval relat-25
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ing to the same rule may not be considered under this 1
chapter in the same Congress by either the House of Rep-2
resentatives or the Senate. 3
‘‘(b)(1) A major rule shall not take effect unless the 4
Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval described 5
under section 802. 6
‘‘(2) If a joint resolution described in subsection (a) 7
is not enacted into law by the end of 70 session days or 8
legislative days, as applicable, beginning on the date on 9
which the report referred to in subsection (a)(1)(A) is re-10
ceived by Congress (excluding days either House of Con-11
gress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a session 12
of Congress), then the rule described in that resolution 13
shall be deemed not to be approved and such rule shall 14
not take effect. 15
‘‘(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 16
section (except subject to paragraph (3)), a major rule 17
may take effect for one 90-calendar-day period if the 18
President makes a determination under paragraph (2) and 19
submits written notice of such determination to the Con-20
gress. 21
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination made 22
by the President by Executive order that the major rule 23
should take effect because such rule is— 24
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‘‘(A) necessary because of an imminent threat 1
to health or safety or other emergency; 2
‘‘(B) necessary for the enforcement of criminal 3
laws; 4
‘‘(C) necessary for national security; or 5
‘‘(D) issued pursuant to any statute imple-6
menting an international trade agreement. 7
‘‘(3) An exercise by the President of the authority 8
under this subsection shall have no effect on the proce-9
dures under section 802. 10
‘‘(d)(1) In addition to the opportunity for review oth-11
erwise provided under this chapter, in the case of any rule 12
for which a report was submitted in accordance with sub-13
section (a)(1)(A) during the period beginning on the date 14
occurring— 15
‘‘(A) in the case of the Senate, 60 session days; 16
or 17
‘‘(B) in the case of the House of Representa-18
tives, 60 legislative days, 19
before the date the Congress is scheduled to adjourn a 20
session of Congress through the date on which the same 21
or succeeding Congress first convenes its next session, sec-22
tions 802 and 803 shall apply to such rule in the suc-23
ceeding session of Congress. 24
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‘‘(2)(A) In applying sections 802 and 803 for pur-1
poses of such additional review, a rule described under 2
paragraph (1) shall be treated as though— 3
‘‘(i) such rule were published in the Federal 4
Register on— 5
‘‘(I) in the case of the Senate, the 15th 6
session day; or 7
‘‘(II) in the case of the House of Rep-8
resentatives, the 15th legislative day, 9
after the succeeding session of Congress first con-10
venes; and 11
‘‘(ii) a report on such rule were submitted to 12
Congress under subsection (a)(1) on such date. 13
‘‘(B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed 14
to affect the requirement under subsection (a)(1) that a 15
report shall be submitted to Congress before a rule can 16
take effect. 17
‘‘(3) A rule described under paragraph (1) shall take 18
effect as otherwise provided by law (including other sub-19
sections of this section). 20
‘‘§ 802. Congressional approval procedure for major 21
rules 22
‘‘(a)(1) For purposes of this section, the term ‘joint 23
resolution’ means only a joint resolution addressing a re-24
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port classifying a rule as major pursuant to section 1
801(a)(1)(A)(iii) that— 2
‘‘(A) bears no preamble; 3
‘‘(B) bears the following title (with blanks filled 4
as appropriate): ‘Approving the rule submitted by 5
lll relating to lll.’; 6
‘‘(C) includes after its resolving clause only the 7
following (with blanks filled as appropriate): ‘That 8
Congress approves the rule submitted by lll re-9
lating to lll.’; and 10
‘‘(D) is introduced pursuant to paragraph (2). 11
‘‘(2) After a House of Congress receives a report 12
classifying a rule as major pursuant to section 13
801(a)(1)(A)(iii), the majority leader of that House (or 14
his or her respective designee) shall introduce (by request, 15
if appropriate) a joint resolution described in paragraph 16
(1)— 17
‘‘(A) in the case of the House of Representa-18
tives, within 3 legislative days; and 19
‘‘(B) in the case of the Senate, within 3 session 20
days. 21
‘‘(3) A joint resolution described in paragraph (1) 22
shall not be subject to amendment at any stage of pro-23
ceeding. 24
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‘‘(b) A joint resolution described in subsection (a) 1
shall be referred in each House of Congress to the commit-2
tees having jurisdiction over the provision of law under 3
which the rule is issued. 4
‘‘(c) In the Senate, if the committee or committees 5
to which a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has 6
been referred have not reported it at the end of 15 session 7
days after its introduction, such committee or committees 8
shall be automatically discharged from further consider-9
ation of the resolution and it shall be placed on the cal-10
endar. A vote on final passage of the resolution shall be 11
taken on or before the close of the 15th session day after 12
the resolution is reported by the committee or committees 13
to which it was referred, or after such committee or com-14
mittees have been discharged from further consideration 15
of the resolution. 16
‘‘(d)(1) In the Senate, when the committee or com-17
mittees to which a joint resolution is referred have re-18
ported, or when a committee or committees are discharged 19
(under subsection (c)) from further consideration of a 20
joint resolution described in subsection (a), it is at any 21
time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion 22
to the same effect has been disagreed to) for a motion 23
to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, and 24
all points of order against the joint resolution (and against 25
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consideration of the joint resolution) are waived. The mo-1
tion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to post-2
pone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of 3
other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which 4
the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in 5
order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the 6
joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall re-7
main the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed 8
of. 9
‘‘(2) In the Senate, debate on the joint resolution, 10
and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection 11
therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, which 12
shall be divided equally between those favoring and those 13
opposing the joint resolution. A motion to further limit 14
debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to, 15
or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 16
consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit 17
the joint resolution is not in order. 18
‘‘(3) In the Senate, immediately following the conclu-19
sion of the debate on a joint resolution described in sub-20
section (a), and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 21
the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 22
Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution 23
shall occur. 24
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‘‘(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 1
to the application of the rules of the Senate to the proce-2
dure relating to a joint resolution described in subsection 3
(a) shall be decided without debate. 4
‘‘(e) In the House of Representatives, if any com-5
mittee to which a joint resolution described in subsection 6
(a) has been referred has not reported it to the House 7
at the end of 15 legislative days after its introduction, 8
such committee shall be discharged from further consider-9
ation of the joint resolution, and it shall be placed on the 10
appropriate calendar. On the second and fourth Thursdays 11
of each month it shall be in order at any time for the 12
Speaker to recognize a Member who favors passage of a 13
joint resolution that has appeared on the calendar for at 14
least 5 legislative days to call up that joint resolution for 15
immediate consideration in the House without intervention 16
of any point of order. When so called up a joint resolution 17
shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for 1 18
hour equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 19
an opponent, and the previous question shall be considered 20
as ordered to its passage without intervening motion. It 21
shall not be in order to reconsider the vote on passage. 22
If a vote on final passage of the joint resolution has not 23
been taken by the third Thursday on which the Speaker 24
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may recognize a Member under this subsection, such vote 1
shall be taken on that day. 2
‘‘(f)(1) If, before passing a joint resolution described 3
in subsection (a), one House receives from the other a 4
joint resolution having the same text, then— 5
‘‘(A) the joint resolution of the other House 6
shall not be referred to a committee; and 7
‘‘(B) the procedure in the receiving House shall 8
be the same as if no joint resolution had been re-9
ceived from the other House until the vote on pas-10
sage, when the joint resolution received from the 11
other House shall supplant the joint resolution of 12
the receiving House. 13
‘‘(2) This subsection shall not apply to the House of 14
Representatives if the joint resolution received from the 15
Senate is a revenue measure. 16
‘‘(g) If either House has not taken a vote on final 17
passage of the joint resolution by the last day of the period 18
described in section 801(b)(2), then such vote shall be 19
taken on that day. 20
‘‘(h) This section and section 803 are enacted by 21
Congress— 22
‘‘(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 23
the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-24
tively, and as such are deemed to be part of the 25
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rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only 1
with respect to the procedure to be followed in that 2
House in the case of a joint resolution described in 3
subsection (a) and superseding other rules only 4
where explicitly so; and 5
‘‘(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 6
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 7
they relate to the procedure of that House) at any 8
time, in the same manner and to the same extent as 9
in the case of any other rule of that House. 10
‘‘§ 803. Congressional disapproval procedure for 11
nonmajor rules 12
‘‘(a) For purposes of this section, the term ‘joint res-13
olution’ means only a joint resolution introduced in the 14
period beginning on the date on which the report referred 15
to in section 801(a)(1)(A) is received by Congress and 16
ending 60 days thereafter (excluding days either House 17
of Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a 18
session of Congress), the matter after the resolving clause 19
of which is as follows: ‘That Congress disapproves the 20
nonmajor rule submitted by the lll relating to 21
lll, and such rule shall have no force or effect.’ (The 22
blank spaces being appropriately filled in). 23
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‘‘(b) A joint resolution described in subsection (a) 1
shall be referred to the committees in each House of Con-2
gress with jurisdiction. 3
‘‘(c) In the Senate, if the committee to which is re-4
ferred a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has 5
not reported such joint resolution (or an identical joint 6
resolution) at the end of 15 session days after the date 7
of introduction of the joint resolution, such committee may 8
be discharged from further consideration of such joint res-9
olution upon a petition supported in writing by 30 Mem-10
bers of the Senate, and such joint resolution shall be 11
placed on the calendar. 12
‘‘(d)(1) In the Senate, when the committee to which 13
a joint resolution is referred has reported, or when a com-14
mittee is discharged (under subsection (c)) from further 15
consideration of a joint resolution described in subsection 16
(a), it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a 17
previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) 18
for a motion to proceed to the consideration of the joint 19
resolution, and all points of order against the joint resolu-20
tion (and against consideration of the joint resolution) are 21
waived. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to 22
a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the 23
consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the 24
vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall 25
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not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration 1
of the joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution 2
shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until 3
disposed of. 4
‘‘(2) In the Senate, debate on the joint resolution, 5
and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection 6
therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, 7
which shall be divided equally between those favoring and 8
those opposing the joint resolution. A motion to further 9
limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment 10
to, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to 11
the consideration of other business, or a motion to recom-12
mit the joint resolution is not in order. 13
‘‘(3) In the Senate, immediately following the conclu-14
sion of the debate on a joint resolution described in sub-15
section (a), and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 16
the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 17
Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution 18
shall occur. 19
‘‘(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 20
to the application of the rules of the Senate to the proce-21
dure relating to a joint resolution described in subsection 22
(a) shall be decided without debate. 23
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‘‘(e) In the Senate, the procedure specified in sub-1
section (c) or (d) shall not apply to the consideration of 2
a joint resolution respecting a nonmajor rule— 3
‘‘(1) after the expiration of the 60 session days 4
beginning with the applicable submission or publica-5
tion date; or 6
‘‘(2) if the report under section 801(a)(1)(A) 7
was submitted during the period referred to in sec-8
tion 801(d)(1), after the expiration of the 60 session 9
days beginning on the 15th session day after the 10
succeeding session of Congress first convenes. 11
‘‘(f) If, before the passage by one House of a joint 12
resolution of that House described in subsection (a), that 13
House receives from the other House a joint resolution 14
described in subsection (a), then the following procedures 15
shall apply: 16
‘‘(1) The joint resolution of the other House 17
shall not be referred to a committee. 18
‘‘(2) With respect to a joint resolution described 19
in subsection (a) of the House receiving the joint 20
resolution— 21
‘‘(A) the procedure in that House shall be 22
the same as if no joint resolution had been re-23
ceived from the other House; but 24
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‘‘(B) the vote on final passage shall be on 1
the joint resolution of the other House. 2
‘‘§ 804. Definitions 3
‘‘For purposes of this chapter: 4
‘‘(1) The term ‘Federal agency’ means any 5
agency as that term is defined in section 551(1). 6
‘‘(2) The term ‘major rule’ means any rule, in-7
cluding an interim final rule, that the Administrator 8
of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 9
of the Office of Management and Budget finds has 10
resulted in or is likely to result in— 11
‘‘(A) an annual effect on the economy of 12
$100 million or more; 13
‘‘(B) a major increase in costs or prices for 14
consumers, individual industries, Federal, 15
State, or local government agencies, or geo-16
graphic regions; or 17
‘‘(C) significant adverse effects on competi-18
tion, employment, investment, productivity, in-19
novation, or the ability of United States-based 20
enterprises to compete with foreign-based enter-21
prises in domestic and export markets. 22
‘‘(3) The term ‘nonmajor rule’ means any rule 23
that is not a major rule. 24
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‘‘(4) The term ‘rule’ has the meaning given 1
such term in section 551, except that such term does 2
not include— 3
‘‘(A) any rule of particular applicability, 4
including a rule that approves or prescribes for 5
the future rates, wages, prices, services, or al-6
lowances therefore, corporate or financial struc-7
tures, reorganizations, mergers, or acquisitions 8
thereof, or accounting practices or disclosures 9
bearing on any of the foregoing; 10
‘‘(B) any rule relating to agency manage-11
ment or personnel; or 12
‘‘(C) any rule of agency organization, pro-13
cedure, or practice that does not substantially 14
affect the rights or obligations of non-agency 15
parties. 16
‘‘(5) The term ‘submission or publication date’, 17
except as otherwise provided in this chapter, 18
means— 19
‘‘(A) in the case of a major rule, the date 20
on which the Congress receives the report sub-21
mitted under section 801(a)(1); and 22
‘‘(B) in the case of a nonmajor rule, the 23
later of— 24
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‘‘(i) the date on which the Congress 1
receives the report submitted under section 2
801(a)(1); and 3
‘‘(ii) the date on which the nonmajor 4
rule is published in the Federal Register, if 5
so published. 6
‘‘§ 805. Judicial review 7
‘‘(a) No determination, finding, action, or omission 8
under this chapter shall be subject to judicial review. 9
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a court may de-10
termine whether a Federal agency has completed the nec-11
essary requirements under this chapter for a rule to take 12
effect. 13
‘‘(c) The enactment of a joint resolution of approval 14
under section 802 shall not be interpreted to serve as a 15
grant or modification of statutory authority by Congress 16
for the promulgation of a rule, shall not extinguish or af-17
fect any claim, whether substantive or procedural, against 18
any alleged defect in a rule, and shall not form part of 19
the record before the court in any judicial proceeding con-20
cerning a rule except for purposes of determining whether 21
or not the rule is in effect. 22
‘‘§ 806. Exemption for monetary policy 23
‘‘Nothing in this chapter shall apply to rules that con-24
cern monetary policy proposed or implemented by the 25
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the 1
Federal Open Market Committee. 2
‘‘§ 807. Effective date of certain rules 3
‘‘Notwithstanding section 801— 4
‘‘(1) any rule that establishes, modifies, opens, 5
closes, or conducts a regulatory program for a com-6
mercial, recreational, or subsistence activity related 7
to hunting, fishing, or camping; or 8
‘‘(2) any rule other than a major rule which an 9
agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the 10
finding and a brief statement of reasons therefore in 11
the rule issued) that notice and public procedure 12
thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 13
to the public interest, 14
shall take effect at such time as the Federal agency pro-15
mulgating the rule determines.’’. 16
SEC. 4. BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF RULES SUBJECT TO SEC-17
TION 802 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE. 18
Section 257(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-19
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(b)(2)) 20
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-21
paragraph: 22
‘‘(E) B
UDGETARY EFFECTS OF RULES 23
SUBJECT TO SECTION 802 OF TITLE 5 , UNITED 24
STATES CODE.—Any rule subject to the con-25
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gressional approval procedure set forth in sec-1
tion 802 of chapter 8 of title 5, United States 2
Code, affecting budget authority, outlays, or re-3
ceipts shall be assumed to be effective unless it 4
is not approved in accordance with such sec-5
tion.’’. 6
SEC. 5. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE STUDY OF 7
RULES. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Comptroller General of the 9
United States shall conduct a study to determine, as of 10
the date of the enactment of this Act— 11
(1) how many rules (as such term is defined in 12
section 804 of title 5, United States Code) were in 13
effect; 14
(2) how many major rules (as such term is de-15
fined in section 804 of title 5, United States Code) 16
were in effect; and 17
(3) the total estimated economic cost imposed 18
by all such rules. 19
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 20
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of 21
the United States shall submit a report to Congress that 22
contains the findings of the study conducted under sub-23
section (a). 24
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