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DUMP Red Tape Act

Introduced Jul 10, 2025

Latest action (Dec 4, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Referred to
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Small Business Committee
Policy area
Commerce
Issues
Economy & Taxes
Legislative subjects (5)
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresCongressional oversightGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsSmall Business Administration

Summary

This bill directs the Small Business Administration's Chief Counsel for Advocacy to establish a "Red Tape Hotline" within 180 days to receive notifications from small entities about burdensome government rules, guidance, and policies. The hotline will accept submissions through email, phone, submission forms, or other methods made easily accessible on a website. The Chief Counsel must submit an annual report to the SBA Administrator and Congress identifying the most frequently reported rules by industry, summarizing the notifications received by entity type and geography, identifying the agencies responsible, and recommending ways to reduce the burden on small entities. The report must also describe actions the Chief Counsel has taken to address the reported rules and regulations.

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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Actions (17)
  1. Dec 4, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. · senate
  2. Dec 3, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  3. Dec 3, 2025 On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 269 - 146 (Roll no. 311). (text: CR 12/02/2025 H4989-4990) · house
  4. Dec 3, 2025 Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 269 - 146 (Roll no. 311). (text: CR 12/02/2025 H4989-4990)
  5. Dec 3, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5011-5012) · house
  6. Dec 2, 2025 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 4305, the Chair put the question on passage of the bill and by voice vote announced the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Velazquez demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced. · house
  7. Dec 2, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4305. · house
  8. Dec 2, 2025 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4312, H.R. 1005, H.R. 1049, H.R. 1069, H.R. 2965 and H.R. 4305. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4312, H.R. 1005, H.R. 1049, H.R. 1069, H.R. 2965, and H.R. 4305 under a closed rule with one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit on each bill. · house
  9. Dec 2, 2025 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 916. (consideration: CR H4989-4992) · house
  10. Dec 2, 2025 Rule H. Res. 916 passed House. · house
  11. Dec 1, 2025 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 916 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4312, H.R. 1005, H.R. 1049, H.R. 1069, H.R. 2965 and H.R. 4305. The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 4312, H.R. 1005, H.R. 1049, H.R. 1069, H.R. 2965, and H.R. 4305 under a closed rule with one hour of general debate and one motion to recommit on each bill. · house
  12. Nov 21, 2025 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 333. · house
  13. Nov 21, 2025 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-383. · house
  14. Nov 18, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 9. · house
  15. Nov 18, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  16. Jul 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. · house
  17. Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 6644 — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • HRES 1299 — Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 6644, with amendment. (shares 4 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 4674 — DUMP Red Tape Act · Introduced Jun 3, 2026 · Cong. 119 92%
  • HR 6354 — Cut the Burden, Keep the Benefits Act · Introduced Dec 2, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 148 — RED TAPE Act · Introduced Nov 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 495 — Prove It Act of 2025 · Introduced Nov 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 572 — RED TAPE Act · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 6398 — RED Tape Act · Passed House Apr 17, 2026 · Cong. 119 60%

Text versions (4)
  • Referred in Senate · Dec 4, 2025
  • Engrossed in House · Dec 3, 2025
  • Reported in House · Nov 21, 2025
  • Introduced in House · Jul 10, 2025

Full text

AN ACT

To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, 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 “Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act” or the “DUMP Red Tape Act”.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RED TAPE HOTLINE.

Section 203 of Public Law 94-305 (15 U.S.C. 634c) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Red Tape Hotline.—

“(1) Establishment.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall—

“(A) establish, operate, and maintain a hotline, to be known as the ‘Red Tape Hotline’ to receive a notification from a small entity relating to the burden of complying with a rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity of an agency that is applicable to such concern;

“(B) establish an email address, submission form, phone number, or such other method as determined appropriate by the Chief Counsel for small entities to submit such notifications to such hotline; and

“(C) establish a website providing such email address, submission form, phone number, or other method in a manner that is easily accessible.

“(2) Report.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Congress a report on the Red Tape Hotline that includes—

“(A) the rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities for which notifications are most frequently received, including the affected industry sectors for such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable);

“(B) a summary of the notifications received, including the type of small entity or other organization that submitted the notification and the geographic area and industry category from which the notification was sent;

“(C) an identification of the agency that issued each such rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, including an identification of which such rule, guidance, or policy statement such agency issued or an explanation of which such other activity the agency engaged in, as applicable;

“(D) recommendations for each agency that issued such a rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, for reducing the burden of such rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity on small entities; and

“(E) a summary of actions taken by the Chief Counsel to address such rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities, including any such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable) for which the Chief Counsel submitted comments or analysis.

“(3) Definitions.—In this subsection—

“(A) the term ‘agency’ has the meaning given such term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and

“(B) the terms ‘rule’ and ‘small entity’ have the meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601 of such title.”.

Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025.

Attest:

Clerk. 119th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 4305

AN ACT

To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.

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