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To amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, to provide additional requirements for the periodic review of rules, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Administrative Procedure Act to strengthen requirements for federal agencies to periodically review their rules. It requires agencies to review all existing rules within ten years and new rules within ten years of their adoption. The bill also requires agencies to annually publish a list of rules that do not have significant economic impact on small businesses. Additionally, the bill allows federal courts to prohibit enforcement of any rule if an agency fails to comply with the periodic review requirements.
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Top reported contributors to David Schweikert’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $273,533
- CEO $16,700
- STENSON TAMADDON $13,700
- OPTIMA FINANCIAL GROUP $13,600
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
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Actions (2)
- Jul 25, 2025 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 jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
- Jul 25, 2025 Introduced in House
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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 jurisdiction 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 Representatives 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 Reassuring Tests—Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely Act of 2025” or the “RESTART SUNSET Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PERIODIC REVIEW 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 RESTART SUNSET Act of 2025 within ten years of that date and review such rules adopted after the date of enactment of the RESTART SUNSET Act of 2025 within 10 years of the publication 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 entities, 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 paragraph (6); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
“(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 enforcement of such rule.”. <all>
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