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22 119THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION S. 368
55 To require congressional approval for rules that are expected to cost not
66 less than $50,000,000 annually, and for other purposes.
77 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
88 FEBRUARY3, 2025
99 Mr. K
1010 ENNEDYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
1111 to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
1212 A BILL
1313 To require congressional approval for rules that are expected
1414 to cost not less than $50,000,000 annually, and for
1515 other purposes.
1616 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1717 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1818 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
1919 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bureaucratic Limita-4
2020 tion and Overreach Control Act’’ or the ‘‘BLOCK Act’’. 5
2121 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGENCY RULE-6
2222 MAKING. 7
2323 Chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 8
2424 to read as follows: 9
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2828 ‘‘CHAPTER 8—CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW 1
2929 OF AGENCY RULEMAKING 2
3030 ‘‘Sec.
3131 ‘‘801. Congressional review.
3232 ‘‘802. Congressional approval procedure for major rules.
3333 ‘‘803. Congressional disapproval procedure for nonmajor rules.
3434 ‘‘804. Definitions.
3535 ‘‘805. Judicial review.
3636 ‘‘806. Exemption for monetary policy.
3737 ‘‘807. Effective date of certain rules.
3838 ‘‘808. Review of rules currently in effect.
3939 ‘‘§ 801. Congressional review 3
4040 ‘‘(a)(1)(A) Before a rule may take effect, the Federal 4
4141 agency promulgating such rule shall publish in the Federal 5
4242 Register a list of information on which the rule is based, 6
4343 including data, scientific and economic studies, and cost- 7
4444 benefit analyses, and identify how the public can access 8
4545 such information online, and shall submit to each House 9
4646 of the Congress a report containing— 10
4747 ‘‘(i) a copy of the rule; 11
4848 ‘‘(ii) a concise general statement relating to the 12
4949 rule; 13
5050 ‘‘(iii) a finding, rendered by the Comptroller 14
5151 General of the United States, of whether the rule is 15
5252 a major rule or nonmajor rule; 16
5353 ‘‘(iv) a list of any other related regulatory ac-17
5454 tions intended to implement the same statutory pro-18
5555 vision or regulatory objective as well as the indi-19
5656 vidual and aggregate economic effects of those ac-20
5757 tions; 21
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6161 ‘‘(v) the proposed effective date of the rule; and 1
6262 ‘‘(vi) a statement of the constitutional authority 2
6363 authorizing the agency to make the rule. 3
6464 ‘‘(B) On the date of the submission of the report 4
6565 under subparagraph (A), the Federal agency promulgating 5
6666 the rule shall submit to the Comptroller General and make 6
6767 available to each House of Congress (and to each com-7
6868 mittee of jurisdiction in each House)— 8
6969 ‘‘(i) a complete copy of the cost-benefit analysis 9
7070 of the rule, if any, including an analysis of any jobs 10
7171 added or lost, differentiating between public and pri-11
7272 vate sector jobs; 12
7373 ‘‘(ii) the agency’s actions pursuant to sections 13
7474 603, 604, 605, 607, and 609 of this title; 14
7575 ‘‘(iii) the agency’s actions pursuant to sections 15
7676 202, 203, 204, and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates 16
7777 Reform Act of 1995; 17
7878 ‘‘(iv) an estimate of the effect on inflation of 18
7979 the rule; and 19
8080 ‘‘(v) any other relevant information or require-20
8181 ments under any other Act and any relevant Execu-21
8282 tive orders. 22
8383 ‘‘(C) Upon receipt of a report submitted under sub-23
8484 paragraph (A), each House shall provide copies of the re-24
8585 port to the chairman and ranking member of each stand-25
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8989 ing committee with jurisdiction under the rules of the 1
9090 House of Representatives or the Senate to report a bill 2
9191 to amend the provision of law under which the rule is 3
9292 issued. 4
9393 ‘‘(2)(A) The Comptroller General shall provide a re-5
9494 port on each major rule to the committees of jurisdiction 6
9595 by the end of 15 calendar days after the submission or 7
9696 publication date. The report of the Comptroller General 8
9797 shall include an assessment of the agency’s compliance 9
9898 with procedural steps required by paragraph (1)(B) and 10
9999 an assessment of whether the major rule imposes any new 11
100100 limits or mandates on private-sector activity. 12
101101 ‘‘(B) Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Comp-13
102102 troller General by providing information relevant to the 14
103103 Comptroller General’s report under subparagraph (A). 15
104104 ‘‘(3) A major rule relating to a report submitted 16
105105 under paragraph (1) shall take effect upon enactment of 17
106106 a joint resolution of approval described in section 802 or 18
107107 as provided for in the rule following enactment of a joint 19
108108 resolution of approval described in section 802, whichever 20
109109 is later. 21
110110 ‘‘(4) A nonmajor rule shall take effect as provided 22
111111 by section 803 after submission to Congress under para-23
112112 graph (1). 24
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116116 ‘‘(5) If a joint resolution of approval relating to a 1
117117 major rule is not enacted within the period provided in 2
118118 subsection (b)(2), then a joint resolution of approval relat-3
119119 ing to the same rule may not be considered under this 4
120120 chapter in the same Congress by either the House of Rep-5
121121 resentatives or the Senate. 6
122122 ‘‘(b)(1) A major rule shall not take effect unless the 7
123123 Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval described 8
124124 under section 802. 9
125125 ‘‘(2) If a joint resolution described in subsection (a) 10
126126 is not enacted into law by the end of 30 session days or 11
127127 legislative days, as applicable, beginning on the date on 12
128128 which the report referred to in subsection (a)(1)(A) is re-13
129129 ceived by Congress (excluding days either House of Con-14
130130 gress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a session 15
131131 of Congress), then the rule described in that resolution 16
132132 shall be deemed not to be approved and such rule shall 17
133133 not take effect. 18
134134 ‘‘(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 19
135135 section (except subject to paragraph (3)), a major rule 20
136136 may take effect for one 15-session-day period if the Presi-21
137137 dent makes a determination under paragraph (2) and sub-22
138138 mits written notice of such determination to the Congress. 23
139139 ‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination made 24
140140 by the President by Executive order that the major rule 25
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144144 should take effect because such rule is necessary for na-1
145145 tional security or disaster response. 2
146146 ‘‘(3) An exercise by the President of the authority 3
147147 under this subsection shall have no effect on the proce-4
148148 dures under section 802. 5
149149 ‘‘(d)(1) In addition to the opportunity for review oth-6
150150 erwise provided under this chapter, in the case of any rule 7
151151 for which a report was submitted in accordance with sub-8
152152 section (a)(1)(A) during the period beginning on the date 9
153153 occurring— 10
154154 ‘‘(A) in the case of the Senate, 60 session days; 11
155155 or 12
156156 ‘‘(B) in the case of the House of Representa-13
157157 tives, 60 legislative days, 14
158158 before the date the Congress is scheduled to adjourn a 15
159159 session of Congress through the date on which the same 16
160160 or succeeding Congress first convenes its next session, sec-17
161161 tions 802 and 803 shall apply to such rule in the suc-18
162162 ceeding session of Congress. 19
163163 ‘‘(2)(A) In applying sections 802 and 803 for pur-20
164164 poses of such additional review, a rule described under 21
165165 paragraph (1) shall be treated as though— 22
166166 ‘‘(i) such rule were published in the Federal 23
167167 Register on— 24
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171171 ‘‘(I) in the case of the Senate, the 15th 1
172172 session day; or 2
173173 ‘‘(II) in the case of the House of Rep-3
174174 resentatives, the 15th legislative day, 4
175175 after the succeeding session of Congress first con-5
176176 venes; and 6
177177 ‘‘(ii) a report on such rule were submitted to 7
178178 Congress under subsection (a)(1) on such date. 8
179179 ‘‘(B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed 9
180180 to affect the requirement under subsection (a)(1) that a 10
181181 report shall be submitted to Congress before a rule can 11
182182 take effect. 12
183183 ‘‘(3) A rule described under paragraph (1) shall take 13
184184 effect as otherwise provided by law (including other sub-14
185185 sections of this section). 15
186186 ‘‘§ 802. Congressional approval procedure for major 16
187187 rules 17
188188 ‘‘(a)(1) For purposes of this section, the term ‘joint 18
189189 resolution’ means only a joint resolution addressing a re-19
190190 port classifying a rule as major pursuant to section 20
191191 801(a)(1)(A)(iii) that— 21
192192 ‘‘(A) bears no preamble; 22
193193 ‘‘(B) bears the following title (with blanks filled 23
194194 as appropriate): ‘Approving the rule submitted by 24
195195 lll relating to lll.’; 25
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199199 ‘‘(C) includes after its resolving clause only the 1
200200 following (with blanks filled as appropriate): ‘That 2
201201 Congress approves the rule submitted by lll re-3
202202 lating to lll.’; and 4
203203 ‘‘(D) is introduced pursuant to paragraph (2). 5
204204 ‘‘(2) After a House of Congress receives a report 6
205205 classifying a rule as major pursuant to section 7
206206 801(a)(1)(A)(iii), the majority leader of that House (or 8
207207 his or her respective designee) shall introduce (by request, 9
208208 if appropriate) a joint resolution described in paragraph 10
209209 (1)— 11
210210 ‘‘(A) in the case of the House of Representa-12
211211 tives, within 3 legislative days; and 13
212212 ‘‘(B) in the case of the Senate, within 3 session 14
213213 days. 15
214214 ‘‘(3) A joint resolution described in paragraph (1) 16
215215 shall not be subject to amendment at any stage of pro-17
216216 ceeding. 18
217217 ‘‘(b) A joint resolution described in subsection (a) 19
218218 shall be referred in each House of Congress to the commit-20
219219 tees having jurisdiction over the provision of law under 21
220220 which the rule is issued. 22
221221 ‘‘(c) In the Senate, if the committee or committees 23
222222 to which a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has 24
223223 been referred have not reported it at the end of 15 session 25
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227227 days after its introduction, such committee or committees 1
228228 shall be automatically discharged from further consider-2
229229 ation of the resolution and it shall be placed on the cal-3
230230 endar. A vote on final passage of the resolution shall be 4
231231 taken on or before the close of the 15th session day after 5
232232 the resolution is reported by the committee or committees 6
233233 to which it was referred, or after such committee or com-7
234234 mittees have been discharged from further consideration 8
235235 of the resolution. 9
236236 ‘‘(d)(1) In the Senate, when the committee or com-10
237237 mittees to which a joint resolution is referred have re-11
238238 ported, or when a committee or committees are discharged 12
239239 (under subsection (c)) from further consideration of a 13
240240 joint resolution described in subsection (a), it is at any 14
241241 time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion 15
242242 to the same effect has been disagreed to) for a motion 16
243243 to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, and 17
244244 all points of order against the joint resolution (and against 18
245245 consideration of the joint resolution) are waived. The mo-19
246246 tion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to post-20
247247 pone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of 21
248248 other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which 22
249249 the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in 23
250250 order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the 24
251251 joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall re-25
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255255 main the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed 1
256256 of. 2
257257 ‘‘(2) In the Senate, debate on the joint resolution, 3
258258 and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection 4
259259 therewith, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, which 5
260260 shall be divided equally between those favoring and those 6
261261 opposing the joint resolution. A motion to further limit 7
262262 debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to, 8
263263 or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 9
264264 consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit 10
265265 the joint resolution is not in order. 11
266266 ‘‘(3) In the Senate, immediately following the conclu-12
267267 sion of the debate on a joint resolution described in sub-13
268268 section (a), and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 14
269269 the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 15
270270 Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution 16
271271 shall occur. 17
272272 ‘‘(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 18
273273 to the application of the rules of the Senate to the proce-19
274274 dure relating to a joint resolution described in subsection 20
275275 (a) shall be decided without debate. 21
276276 ‘‘(e) In the House of Representatives, if any com-22
277277 mittee to which a joint resolution described in subsection 23
278278 (a) has been referred has not reported it to the House 24
279279 at the end of 15 legislative days after its introduction, 25
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283283 such committee shall be discharged from further consider-1
284284 ation of the joint resolution, and it shall be placed on the 2
285285 appropriate calendar. On the second and fourth Thursdays 3
286286 of each month it shall be in order at any time for the 4
287287 Speaker to recognize a Member who favors passage of a 5
288288 joint resolution that has appeared on the calendar for at 6
289289 least 5 legislative days to call up that joint resolution for 7
290290 immediate consideration in the House without intervention 8
291291 of any point of order. When so called up a joint resolution 9
292292 shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for 1 10
293293 hour equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 11
294294 an opponent, and the previous question shall be considered 12
295295 as ordered to its passage without intervening motion. It 13
296296 shall not be in order to reconsider the vote on passage. 14
297297 If a vote on final passage of the joint resolution has not 15
298298 been taken by the third Thursday on which the Speaker 16
299299 may recognize a Member under this subsection, such vote 17
300300 shall be taken on that day. 18
301301 ‘‘(f)(1) If, before passing a joint resolution described 19
302302 in subsection (a), one House receives from the other a 20
303303 joint resolution having the same text, then— 21
304304 ‘‘(A) the joint resolution of the other House 22
305305 shall not be referred to a committee; and 23
306306 ‘‘(B) the procedure in the receiving House shall 24
307307 be the same as if no joint resolution had been re-25
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311311 ceived from the other House until the vote on pas-1
312312 sage, when the joint resolution received from the 2
313313 other House shall supplant the joint resolution of 3
314314 the receiving House. 4
315315 ‘‘(2) This subsection shall not apply to the House of 5
316316 Representatives if the joint resolution received from the 6
317317 Senate is a revenue measure. 7
318318 ‘‘(g) If either House has not taken a vote on final 8
319319 passage of the joint resolution by the last day of the period 9
320320 described in section 801(b)(2), then such vote shall be 10
321321 taken on that day. 11
322322 ‘‘(h) This section and section 803 are enacted by 12
323323 Congress— 13
324324 ‘‘(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 14
325325 the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-15
326326 tively, and as such are deemed to be part of the 16
327327 rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only 17
328328 with respect to the procedure to be followed in that 18
329329 House in the case of a joint resolution described in 19
330330 subsection (a) and superseding other rules only 20
331331 where explicitly so; and 21
332332 ‘‘(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 22
333333 right of either House to change the rules (so far as 23
334334 they relate to the procedure of that House) at any 24
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338338 time, in the same manner and to the same extent as 1
339339 in the case of any other rule of that House. 2
340340 ‘‘§ 803. Congressional disapproval procedure for 3
341341 nonmajor rules 4
342342 ‘‘(a) For purposes of this section, the term ‘joint res-5
343343 olution’ means only a joint resolution introduced in the 6
344344 period beginning on the date on which the report referred 7
345345 to in section 801(a)(1)(A) is received by Congress and 8
346346 ending 60 days thereafter (excluding days either House 9
347347 of Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a 10
348348 session of Congress), the matter after the resolving clause 11
349349 of which is as follows: ‘That Congress disapproves the 12
350350 nonmajor rule submitted by the lll relating to 13
351351 lll, and such rule shall have no force or effect.’ (The 14
352352 blank spaces being appropriately filled in). 15
353353 ‘‘(b) A joint resolution described in subsection (a) 16
354354 shall be referred to the committees in each House of Con-17
355355 gress with jurisdiction. 18
356356 ‘‘(c) In the Senate, if the committee to which is re-19
357357 ferred a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has 20
358358 not reported such joint resolution (or an identical joint 21
359359 resolution) at the end of 15 session days after the date 22
360360 of introduction of the joint resolution, such committee may 23
361361 be discharged from further consideration of such joint res-24
362362 olution upon a petition supported in writing by 30 Mem-25
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366366 bers of the Senate, and such joint resolution shall be 1
367367 placed on the calendar. 2
368368 ‘‘(d)(1) In the Senate, when the committee to which 3
369369 a joint resolution is referred has reported, or when a com-4
370370 mittee is discharged (under subsection (c)) from further 5
371371 consideration of a joint resolution described in subsection 6
372372 (a), it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a 7
373373 previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) 8
374374 for a motion to proceed to the consideration of the joint 9
375375 resolution, and all points of order against the joint resolu-10
376376 tion (and against consideration of the joint resolution) are 11
377377 waived. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to 12
378378 a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the 13
379379 consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the 14
380380 vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall 15
381381 not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration 16
382382 of the joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution 17
383383 shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until 18
384384 disposed of. 19
385385 ‘‘(2) In the Senate, debate on the joint resolution, 20
386386 and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection 21
387387 therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, 22
388388 which shall be divided equally between those favoring and 23
389389 those opposing the joint resolution. A motion to further 24
390390 limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment 25
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394394 to, or a motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to 1
395395 the consideration of other business, or a motion to recom-2
396396 mit the joint resolution is not in order. 3
397397 ‘‘(3) In the Senate, immediately following the conclu-4
398398 sion of the debate on a joint resolution described in sub-5
399399 section (a), and a single quorum call at the conclusion of 6
400400 the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the 7
401401 Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution 8
402402 shall occur. 9
403403 ‘‘(4) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating 10
404404 to the application of the rules of the Senate to the proce-11
405405 dure relating to a joint resolution described in subsection 12
406406 (a) shall be decided without debate. 13
407407 ‘‘(e) In the Senate, the procedure specified in sub-14
408408 section (c) or (d) shall not apply to the consideration of 15
409409 a joint resolution respecting a nonmajor rule— 16
410410 ‘‘(1) after the expiration of the 60 session days 17
411411 beginning with the applicable submission or publica-18
412412 tion date; or 19
413413 ‘‘(2) if the report under section 801(a)(1)(A) 20
414414 was submitted during the period referred to in sec-21
415415 tion 801(d)(1), after the expiration of the 60 session 22
416416 days beginning on the 15th session day after the 23
417417 succeeding session of Congress first convenes. 24
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421421 ‘‘(f) If, before the passage by one House of a joint 1
422422 resolution of that House described in subsection (a), that 2
423423 House receives from the other House a joint resolution 3
424424 described in subsection (a), then the following procedures 4
425425 shall apply: 5
426426 ‘‘(1) The joint resolution of the other House 6
427427 shall not be referred to a committee. 7
428428 ‘‘(2) With respect to a joint resolution described 8
429429 in subsection (a) of the House receiving the joint 9
430430 resolution— 10
431431 ‘‘(A) the procedure in that House shall be 11
432432 the same as if no joint resolution had been re-12
433433 ceived from the other House; but 13
434434 ‘‘(B) the vote on final passage shall be on 14
435435 the joint resolution of the other House. 15
436436 ‘‘§ 804. Definitions 16
437437 ‘‘For purposes of this chapter: 17
438438 ‘‘(1) The term ‘Federal agency’ means any 18
439439 agency as that term is defined in section 551(1). 19
440440 ‘‘(2) The term ‘major rule’ means any rule, in-20
441441 cluding an interim final rule, that the Comptroller 21
442442 General of the United States determines has re-22
443443 sulted in or is likely to result in an annual cost of 23
444444 compliance of not less than $50,000,000. 24
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448448 ‘‘(3) The term ‘nonmajor rule’ means any rule 1
449449 that is not a major rule. 2
450450 ‘‘(4) The term ‘rule’ has the meaning given 3
451451 such term in section 551, except that such term— 4
452452 ‘‘(A) includes interpretative rules, general 5
453453 statements of policy, and all other agency guid-6
454454 ance documents; and 7
455455 ‘‘(B) does not include— 8
456456 ‘‘(i) any rule of particular applica-9
457457 bility, including a rule that approves or 10
458458 prescribes for the future rates, wages, 11
459459 prices, services, or allowances therefore, 12
460460 corporate or financial structures, reorga-13
461461 nizations, mergers, or acquisitions thereof, 14
462462 or accounting practices or disclosures bear-15
463463 ing on any of the foregoing; 16
464464 ‘‘(ii) any rule relating to agency man-17
465465 agement or personnel; or 18
466466 ‘‘(iii) any rule of agency organization, 19
467467 procedure, or practice that does not sub-20
468468 stantially affect the rights or obligations of 21
469469 non-agency parties. 22
470470 ‘‘(5) The term ‘submission or publication date’, 23
471471 except as otherwise provided in this chapter, 24
472472 means— 25
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476476 ‘‘(A) in the case of a major rule, the date 1
477477 on which the Congress receives the report sub-2
478478 mitted under section 801(a)(1); and 3
479479 ‘‘(B) in the case of a nonmajor rule, the 4
480480 later of— 5
481481 ‘‘(i) the date on which the Congress 6
482482 receives the report submitted under section 7
483483 801(a)(1); and 8
484484 ‘‘(ii) the date on which the nonmajor 9
485485 rule is published in the Federal Register, if 10
486486 so published. 11
487487 ‘‘§ 805. Judicial review 12
488488 ‘‘(a) No determination, finding, action, or omission 13
489489 under this chapter shall be subject to judicial review. 14
490490 ‘‘(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a court may de-15
491491 termine whether a Federal agency has completed the nec-16
492492 essary requirements under this chapter for a rule to take 17
493493 effect. 18
494494 ‘‘(c) The enactment of a joint resolution of approval 19
495495 under section 802 shall not be interpreted to serve as a 20
496496 grant or modification of statutory authority by Congress 21
497497 for the promulgation of a rule, shall not extinguish or af-22
498498 fect any claim, whether substantive or procedural, against 23
499499 any alleged defect in a rule, and shall not form part of 24
500500 the record before the court in any judicial proceeding con-25
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504504 cerning a rule except for purposes of determining whether 1
505505 or not the rule is in effect. 2
506506 ‘‘§ 806. Exemption for monetary policy 3
507507 ‘‘Nothing in this chapter shall apply to rules that con-4
508508 cern monetary policy proposed or implemented by the 5
509509 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the 6
510510 Federal Open Market Committee. 7
511511 ‘‘§ 807. Effective date of certain rules 8
512512 ‘‘Notwithstanding section 801— 9
513513 ‘‘(1) any rule that establishes, modifies, opens, 10
514514 closes, or conducts a regulatory program for a com-11
515515 mercial, recreational, or subsistence activity related 12
516516 to hunting, fishing, or camping; or 13
517517 ‘‘(2) any rule other than a major rule which an 14
518518 agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the 15
519519 finding and a brief statement of reasons therefore in 16
520520 the rule issued) that notice and public procedure 17
521521 thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary 18
522522 to the public interest, 19
523523 shall take effect at such time as the Federal agency pro-20
524524 mulgating the rule determines. 21
525525 ‘‘§ 808. Review of rules currently in effect 22
526526 ‘‘(a) A
527527 NNUALREVIEW.—Beginning on the date that 23
528528 is 6 months after the date of enactment of this section 24
529529 and annually thereafter for the 4 years following, each 25
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533533 agency shall designate not less than 20 percent of eligible 1
534534 rules made by that agency for review, and shall submit 2
535535 a report including each such eligible rule in the same man-3
536536 ner as a report under section 801(a)(1). Section 801, sec-4
537537 tion 802, and section 803 shall apply to each such rule, 5
538538 subject to subsection (c) of this section. No eligible rule 6
539539 previously designated may be designated again. 7
540540 ‘‘(b) S
541541 UNSET FOR ELIGIBLERULESNOTEX-8
542542 TENDED.—Beginning after the date that is 5 years after 9
543543 the date of enactment of this section, if Congress has not 10
544544 enacted a joint resolution of approval for that eligible rule, 11
545545 that eligible rule shall not continue in effect. 12
546546 ‘‘(c) A
547547 PPROVAL OFRULES.— 13
548548 ‘‘(1) Unless Congress approves all eligible rules 14
549549 designated by executive agencies for review within 15
550550 90 days of designation, they shall have no effect. 16
551551 ‘‘(2) A single joint resolution of approval shall 17
552552 apply to all eligible rules in a report designated for 18
553553 a year as follows: ‘That Congress approves the rules 19
554554 submitted by thelll for the year lll.’ (The 20
555555 blank spaces being appropriately filled in). 21
556556 ‘‘(3) A member of either House may move that 22
557557 a separate joint resolution be required for a specified 23
558558 rule. 24
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562562 ‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘eligible 1
563563 rule’ means a rule that is in effect as of the date of enact-2
564564 ment of this section.’’. 3
565565 SEC. 3. BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF RULES SUBJECT TO SEC-4
566566 TION 802 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE. 5
567567 Section 257(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-6
568568 gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(b)(2)) 7
569569 is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-8
570570 paragraph: 9
571571 ‘‘(E) B
572572 UDGETARY EFFECTS OF RULES 10
573573 SUBJECT TO SECTION 802 OF TITLE 5 , UNITED 11
574574 STATES CODE.—Any rule subject to the con-12
575575 gressional approval procedure set forth in sec-13
576576 tion 802 of chapter 8 of title 5, United States 14
577577 Code, affecting budget authority, outlays, or re-15
578578 ceipts shall be assumed to be effective unless it 16
579579 is not approved in accordance with such sec-17
580580 tion.’’. 18
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