H.R. 974

119 HR 974 IH: Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-02-04
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 974  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   February 4, 2025   Ms. Van Duyne  (for herself,  Mr. Meuser ,  Mr. Bean of Florida , and  Mr. Schmidt ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Small Business    A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than 0, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act  .
2.
Small Business Administration rulemaking costs to small business concerns
(a)
Definitions
In this section:
(1)
Administrator
The term  Administrator  means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration.
(2)
Rule; rule making
The terms  rule  and  rule making  have the meanings given those terms in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
(3)
Small business concern
The term  small business concern  has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ).
(4)
Small business regulatory budget
The term  small business regulatory budget  means the cost to a small business concern of a rule making conducted by the Small Business Administration, including the cost resulting from the issuance of any new rule and the cost resulting from the modification or repeal of an existing rule.
(b)
Requirement
In fiscal year 2026, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator shall ensure that the small business regulatory budget for each small business concern for the applicable fiscal year is not greater than 0.
(c)
Report
Not later than 60 days after the end of fiscal year 2025, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report regarding rules issued by other Federal agencies during the preceding fiscal year that have an impact on small business concerns, which shall—
(1)
include each such rule issued during the preceding fiscal year; and
(2)
be disaggregated by the Federal agency that issued each such rule.
3.
No additional funds
No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.