IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4305 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 4, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and 
Entrepreneurship 
AN ACT 
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Busi-
ness Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline 
to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Destroying Unneces-
sary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act’’ or the 
‘‘DUMP Red Tape Act’’. 
SEC. 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 sub-
section: 
‘‘(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 re-
lating 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, submis-
sion 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, 
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or other method in a manner that is easily ac-
cessible. 
‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this subsection, and annu-
ally 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 re-
ceived, including the type of small entity or 
other organization that submitted the notifica-
tion and the geographic area and industry cat-
egory from which the notification was sent; 
‘‘(C) an identification of the agency that 
issued each such rule, guidance, policy state-
ment, or engaged in such other activity, includ-
ing an identification of which such rule, guid-
ance, or policy statement such agency issued or 
an explanation of which such other activity the 
agency engaged in, as applicable; 
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‘‘(D) recommendations for each agency 
that issued such a rule, guidance, policy state-
ment, or engaged in such other activity, for re-
ducing 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, respec-
tively, in section 601 of such title.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 
2025. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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