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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4770 
To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, to provide additional 
requirements for the periodic review of rules, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2025 
Mr. SCHWEIKERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small 
Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, to provide 
additional requirements for the periodic review of 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, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Regulatory Evidence- 
based Standards for Thorough Accountability and Reas-
suring Tests—Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory 
Evaluations Timely Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘RESTART 
SUNSET Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PERIODIC RE-
VIEW OF RULES. 
(a) PERIODIC REVIEW OF RULES.—Section 610 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘Within one hundred and eighty days after the 
effective date of this chapter, each agency shall 
publish in the Federal Register a plan for the 
periodic review of the rules’’ and inserting 
‘‘Each agency shall periodically review the 
rules’’; 
(B) by striking the second sentence; 
(C) by striking ‘‘The plan shall provide for 
the review of all such agency rules existing on 
the effective date of this chapter within ten 
years of that date and for the review of such 
rules adopted after the effective date of this 
chapter within ten years of the publication of 
such rules as the final rule.’’ and inserting 
‘‘Each agency shall review all such agency rules 
existing on the date of enactment of the RE-
START SUNSET Act of 2025 within ten years 
of that date and review such rules adopted after 
the date of enactment of the RESTART SUN-
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SET Act of 2025 within 10 years of the publi-
cation of such rules as the final rule.’’; and 
(D) in subsection (c), by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘Each year, each agency shall 
publish in the Federal Register a list of the 
rules which do not have a significant economic 
impact on a substantial number of small enti-
ties, and the basis for such conclusion.’’. 
(b) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—Section 611(a) of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘except as 
provided in paragraph (5)’’ before ‘‘the court shall 
order’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this section, if the court finds that the agency failed 
to comply with section 610 with respect to a rule, 
the court shall enter an order prohibiting enforce-
ment of such rule.’’. 
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