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Union Calendar No. 333 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4305 
[Report No. 119–383] 
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administra-
tion to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burden-
some agency rules, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2025 
Mr. WIED introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Small Business 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Additional sponsors: Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. SCHMIDT, and Mr. PATRONIS 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 10, 2025] 
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A BILL 
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. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Destroying Unnecessary, 
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 hot-
line, to be known as the ‘Red Tape Hotline’ to 
receive a notification from a small entity relat-
ing to the burden of complying with a rule, guid-
ance, 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 de-
termined appropriate by the Chief Counsel for 
small entities to submit such notifications to 
such hotline; and 
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‘‘(C) establish a website providing such 
email address, submission form, phone number, 
or other method in a manner that is easily acces-
sible. 
‘‘(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 sub-
mit to the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration 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 statement, 
or engaged in such other activity, including an 
identification of which such rule, guidance, or 
policy statement such agency issued or an expla-
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nation 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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Union Calendar No. 333 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 4305 
[Report No. 119–383] 
A BILL 
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the 
Small Business Administration to establish a Red 
Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burden-
some agency rules, and for other purposes. 
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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