119-hr974

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 974 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 974

 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 0, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 4, 2025

 Ms. Van Duyne (for herself, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Bean of Florida, and Mr. 
 Schmidt) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Small Business

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 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 0, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Small Business Regulatory Reduction 
Act''.

SEC. 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; rule making.--The terms ``rule'' and ``rule 
 making'' have the meanings given those terms in 

section 551 of 
 title 5, United States Code.

    (3) Small business concern.--The term ``small business 
 concern'' has the meaning given the term in 

section 3 of the 
 Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632).

    (4) Small business regulatory budget.--The term ``small 
 business regulatory budget'' means the cost to a small business 
 concern of a rule making conducted by the Small Business 
 Administration, 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 in each fiscal year 
thereafter, the Administrator shall ensure that the small business 
regulatory budget for each small business concern for the applicable 
fiscal year is not greater than 0.
            (c) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the end of fiscal year 
2025, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to 
Congress a report regarding rules issued by other Federal agencies 
during the preceding fiscal year that have an impact on small business 
concerns, 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.

SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS.

 No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act.
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