H.R. 4305

Summary

H.R. 4305, the DUMP Red Tape Act, was introduced in the House on Jul 10, 2025 by Rep. Tony Wied (R) with 3 co-sponsors. It was referred to Small Business And Entrepreneurship, and last saw action on Dec 4, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Record

Text

H.R. 4305 has 3 co-sponsors, 1 roll call and 1 amendment.

119 HR 4305 EH: Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
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 119th CONGRESS  1st Session
 H. R. 4305
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 AN ACT
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act   or the   DUMP Red Tape Act  .
2.
Establishment of Red Tape Hotline
Section 203 of  Public Law 94–305  ( 15 U.S.C. 634c ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
(c)
Red Tape Hotline
(1)
Establishment
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall—
(A)
establish, operate, and maintain a hotline, to be known as the  Red Tape Hotline  to receive a notification from a small entity relating to the burden of complying with a rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity of an agency that is applicable to such concern;
(B)
establish an email address, submission form, phone number, or such other method as determined appropriate by the Chief Counsel for small entities to submit such notifications to such hotline; and
(C)
establish a website providing such email address, submission form, phone number, or other method in a manner that is easily accessible.
(2)
Report
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Congress a report on the Red Tape Hotline that includes—
(A)
the rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities for which notifications are most frequently received, including the affected industry sectors for such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable);
(B)
a summary of the notifications received, including the type of small entity or other organization that submitted the notification and the geographic area and industry category from which the notification was sent;
(C)
an identification of the agency that issued each such rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, including an identification of which such rule, guidance, or policy statement such agency issued or an explanation of which such other activity the agency engaged in, as applicable;
(D)
recommendations for each agency that issued such a rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, for reducing the burden of such rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity on small entities; and
(E)
a summary of actions taken by the Chief Counsel to address such rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities, including any such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable) for which the Chief Counsel submitted comments or analysis.
(3)
Definitions
In this subsection—
(A)
the term  agency  has the meaning given such term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and
(B)
the terms  rule  and  small entity  have the meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601 of such title.
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     Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025.  Kevin F. McCumber,  Clerk.

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CRS Summary

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Sponsors

Rep. Tony Wied (R) sponsors H.R. 4305, and 3 members have co-sponsored it.

Tony Wied

Rep. · R–WI-8 · Sponsor

Introduced Jul 10, 2025

Derek Schmidt

Rep. · R–KS-2 · Co-sponsor

Joined Jul 22, 2025

Elizabeth Van Duyne

Rep. · R–TX-24 · Co-sponsor

Joined Jul 22, 2025

Jimmy Patronis

Rep. · R–FL-1 · Co-sponsor

Joined Nov 18, 2025

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Committees

H.R. 4305 went before 2 committees: Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Referred To · Dec 4, 2025 · 80 Bills

Small Business

Small Business

Reported By · Nov 21, 2025 · 81 Bills

Reports

1 committee report has been filed on H.R. 4305, the latest H. Rept. 119-383.

• H. Rept. 119-383 — DESTROYING UNNECESSARY, MISALIGNED, AND PROHIBITIVE RED TAPE ACT

Actions

H.R. 4305 has taken 17 actions since Jul 10, 2025, the latest on Dec 4, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 4305 went to 1 roll call in the House, the latest on Dec 3, 2025 at 269–146.

Amendments

1 amendment has been offered to H.R. 4305, the latest acted on Dec 2, 2025.

HAMDT 112Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 916, the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Small Business printed in the bill is considered adopted.Dec 2, 2025 · On agreeing to the Rules amendment (A001) Agreed to without objection.

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Related bills

2 bills are related to H.R. 4305.

HRES 916Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair competition with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1005) to prohibit elementary and secondary schools from accepting funds from or entering into contracts with the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1049) to ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child’s public school, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1069) to prohibit the availability of Federal education funds for elementary and secondary schools that receive direct or indirect support from the Government of the People’s Republic of China; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) 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 zero, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4305) to direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.Dec 2, 2025 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · Related billS 4674DUMP Red Tape ActJun 3, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. · Related bill

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Titles

H.R. 4305 goes by 11 titles, 8 of them short titles.

• DUMP Red Tape Act — Display Title
• DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
• To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes. — Official Title as Introduced
• Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
• Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Passed House
• To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes. — Official Titles from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
• DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Passed House
• DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Reported to House
• Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Reported to House
• Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced

Lobbying

5 clients hired 5 firms and 117 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 4305 in 9 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Government Issues, Health Issues, Energy/Nuclear, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Small Business, Banking, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties.

Clients

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Firms

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Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 117.

Filings

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Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 4305 under Commerce, one of its 31 policy areas, and gives it 5 legislative subjects.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 4305’s is Commerce.

Legislative Subjects

H.R. 4305 carries 5 of CRS’s legislative subjects, from Administrative law and regulatory procedures to Small Business Administration.

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 4305, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 119 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. WIED:H.R. 4305.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8[Page H3200]

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