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Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2019

To ensure a complete analysis of the potential impacts of rules on small entities.

Introduced Jan 10, 2019

Latest action (May 22, 2019) Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-86.

Referred to
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (6)
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresDepartment of the InteriorDepartment of the TreasuryEconomic performance and conditionsInternal Revenue Service (IRS)Small business

Summary

The bill amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act to require two additional agencies—the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Internal Revenue Service—to conduct regulatory flexibility analyses when they propose new rules. The analyses assess the potential impacts of regulations on small businesses and small entities. The bill makes a technical amendment clarifying that the requirement applies to proposed and interim final rules. This expansion ensures that these agencies, along with other covered agencies, complete comprehensive analyses of how their regulations may affect small entities.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors

Actions (4)
  1. May 22, 2019 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-86. · senate
  2. May 22, 2019 Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Joint hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 116-86. · senate
  3. Jan 10, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
  4. Jan 10, 2019 Introduced in Senate

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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 387 — Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • S 1608 — Supporting NEW BUSINESSES Act · Introduced May 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 974 — Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 1409 — Small Business Regulatory Relief Act of 2019 · Introduced May 22, 2019 · Cong. 116 66%
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  • HR 4818 — Small Business Reform Act of 2010 · Introduced Mar 24, 2010 · Cong. 111 64%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 10, 2019

Mr. Rubio (for himself 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.

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 “Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2019”.

SEC. 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.”. <all>

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