Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3730
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-03-02
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of the Interior

Department of the Treasury

Economic performance and conditions

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2022-04-05
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Hearing Small Businesses Act of 20</b><strong>22</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>This bill requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Internal Revenue Service to seek and consider the advice of small entities about a proposed or interim final rule before publishing the rule if the rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3730 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 2, 2022 Mr. Rubio (for himself, Mr. Risch , and Ms. Ernst ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To ensure a complete analysis of the potential impacts of rules on small entities, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2022 . 2. Expansion of covered agencies under the Regulatory Flexibility Act Section 609 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking an initial regulatory flexibility analysis which a covered agency is required to conduct by this chapter and inserting a proposed rule or interim final rule for which a covered agency is required to conduct an initial regulatory flexibility analysis by this chapter ; and (2) in subsection (d)— (A) in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; (B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (4) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and (5) the Internal Revenue Service. .