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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6354 
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administra-
tion to establish a hotline to receive notifications of burdensome Govern-
ment actions, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 2, 2025 
Mr. CISNEROS (for himself, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, and Ms. SCHOLTEN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Busi-
ness Administration to establish a hotline to receive noti-
fications of burdensome Government actions, and for 
other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Cut the Burden, Keep 
the Benefits Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF 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) HOTLINE.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall— 
‘‘(A) operate and maintain an email ad-
dress to be known as the ‘Cut the Burden, 
Keep the Benefits Hotline’ (in this subsection 
referred to as the ‘Hotline’) to receive notifica-
tions from small businesses, small organiza-
tions, and small governmental jurisdictions re-
lating to Government actions affecting such 
small businesses, small organizations, or small 
governmental jurisdictions; 
‘‘(B) establish a website providing the 
email address or including a submission form or 
phone number in a manner that is easily acces-
sible; and 
‘‘(C) solicit information from small busi-
nesses, small organizations, and small govern-
mental jurisdictions related to Government ac-
tions, and when there is a notification related 
to a rule that will have a significant economic 
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impact on a substantial number of small busi-
nesses, small organizations, or small govern-
mental jurisdictions, or any combination there-
of, consider regulatory alternatives that will 
achieve the goal of the agency with respect to 
such action while minimizing the burden on 
such entities. 
‘‘(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 Hot-
line that includes— 
‘‘(A) the Government actions for which 
Hotline notifications are most frequently re-
ceived, including the affected industry sectors 
for such Government actions; 
‘‘(B) for each such Government action that 
is a rule— 
‘‘(i) the dollar amount of the regu-
latory benefits of such rule as determined 
by— 
‘‘(I) the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget in the most 
recent report containing an analysis of 
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such rule submitted by the Director 
under section 624 of the Treasury 
and General Government Appropria-
tions Act of 2001 (Public Law 106– 
554; 31 U.S.C. 1105 note); or 
‘‘(II) the agency that issued such 
rule; and 
‘‘(ii) if the dollar amount described in 
clause (i) is determined by the agency that 
issued such rule, a description by the agen-
cy of the regulatory benefits of such rule in 
qualitative or monetized terms; 
‘‘(C) for each such Government action that 
is related to an Executive order or Presidential 
proclamation that is related to tariffs— 
‘‘(i) the specific number of Hotline 
notifications; 
‘‘(ii) a summary of the costs imposted 
on small businesses, small organizations, 
and small governmental jurisdictions, in-
cluding paperwork burdens and fees; and 
‘‘(iii) a summary of the actions taken 
by the Chief Counsel to address each such 
Government action; 
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‘‘(D) a summary of all the Hotline notifi-
cations received, including, for each such Hot-
line notification, whether the notification is re-
lated to a rule or other Government action and 
the geographic area and the type of organiza-
tion or affected industry from which the Hot-
line notification was sent; 
‘‘(E) an identification of— 
‘‘(i) each type of entity, disaggregated 
by small businesses, small organizations, 
small governmental jurisdictions, and rep-
resentatives of such entities, that sub-
mitted a Hotline notification, and the rule 
for which each entity submitted such noti-
fication; and 
‘‘(ii) each Government action for 
which such entity submitted a Hotline no-
tification; 
‘‘(F) recommendations for Government ac-
tions that minimize of such Government actions 
the burden on small businesses, small organiza-
tions, and small governmental jurisdictions; and 
‘‘(G) a summary of actions taken by the 
Chief Counsel to address the Government ac-
tions described in subparagraph (A) and the 
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Hotline notifications described in subparagraph 
(D), including any such Government actions or 
notifications for which the Chief Counsel sub-
mitted comments or analyses. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘Government action’ means 
an action by the Federal Government, including 
rules, Executive orders, statutes, regulations, 
and Presidential proclamations; and 
‘‘(B) the terms ‘rule’, ‘small business’, 
‘small organization’, and ‘small governmental 
jurisdiction’ have the meanings given such 
terms, respectively, in section 601 of title 5, 
United States Code.’’. 
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