Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-2965
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2025-04-17
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Small Business Administration

Small business
Latest action: action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 82.

Summaries:

tv_txt: IB Union Calendar No. 82 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2965 [Report No. 119–111] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 2025 Ms. Van Duyne (for herself and Ms. King-Hinds ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business May 21, 2025 Additional sponsors: Mr. Meuser , Mr. Schmidt , Mr. Finstad , and Mr. Bean of Florida May 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 April 17, 2025 A BILL To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 . 2. Small Business Administration rulemaking costs to small business concerns (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. (2) Rule; rulemaking The terms rule and rulemaking have the meanings given those terms in section 551 of title 5, United States Code. (3) Small business The term small business has the same meaning as the term small business concern under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ), unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes any such definitions in the Federal Register. (4) Small business regulatory budget The term small business regulatory budget means the cost to a small business of a rulemaking conducted by a Federal agency, including the cost resulting from the issuance of any new rule and the cost resulting from the modification or repeal of an existing rule. (b) Requirement In fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator shall ensure that the small business regulatory budget for the Small Business Administration for the applicable fiscal year is not greater than zero. (c) Advocacy Report Not later than 60 days after the end of fiscal year 2025, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration shall submit to Congress a report regarding rules issued by Federal agencies other than the Administration during the preceding fiscal year that have an impact on small businesses, which shall— (1) include the total small business regulatory budgets for the preceding fiscal year for each Federal agency; (2) include each such rule issued during the preceding fiscal year; and (3) be disaggregated by the Federal agency that issued each such rule. 3. No additional funds No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.

May 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

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2965 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 17, 2025 Ms. Van Duyne (for herself and Ms. King-Hinds ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business A BILL To require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025 . 2. Small Business Administration rulemaking costs to small business concerns (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. (2) Rule; rulemaking The terms rule and rulemaking have the meanings given those terms in section 551 of title 5, United States Code. (3) Small business The term small business has the same meaning as the term small business concern under section 3 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632 ), unless an agency, after consultation with the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and after opportunity for public comment, establishes one or more definitions of such term which are appropriate to the activities of the agency and publishes such definition(s) in the Federal Register. (4) Small business regulatory budget The term small business regulatory budget means the cost to a small business of a rulemaking conducted by a Federal agency, including the cost resulting from the issuance of any new rule and the cost resulting from the modification or repeal of an existing rule. (b) Requirement In fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Administrator shall ensure that the small business regulatory budget for the Small Business Administration for the applicable fiscal year is not greater than zero. (c) Advocacy Report Not later than 60 days after the end of fiscal year 2025, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration shall submit to Congress a report regarding rules issued by Federal agencies other than the Administration during the preceding fiscal year that have an impact on small businesses, which shall— (1) include each such rule issued during the preceding fiscal year; and (2) be disaggregated by the Federal agency that issued each such rule. 3. No additional funds No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act.