3.0.0 3396 2023-01-11T13:18:24Z 2023-01-11T13:18:24Z House H HR 2009-07-29 111 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju09 Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee Referred to 2009-09-14T19:40:29Z Referred to 2009-07-29T14:03:41Z 2009-09-14 hsju09 Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Committee 2009-07-29 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2009-07-29 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2080) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2009-07-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2009-07-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress P000583 Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14] RON PAUL R TX 14 N B001250 Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1] Rob Bishop R UT 1 2010-05-05 False Government Operations and Politics Accounting and auditing Administrative law and regulatory procedures Congressional oversight Economic performance and conditions Government Operations and Politics 00 2009-07-29 Introduced in House 2009-09-25T15:19:33Z Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act - Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to: (1) require each agency, before adopting a rule, to determine whether compliance with the rule will result in a specified economic impact; and (2) prohibit an agency from enforcing a rule it determines will result in such impact until its requirements are enacted into law.

Requires each agency: (1) annually, to determine whether its rules have resulted in a specified economic impact in the preceding year; and (2) not later than 365 days after making such determination, to no longer enforce such a rule until its requirements are enacted into law.

Defines "specified economic impact" as: (1) costs to any individual of $5,000 or more in a year; (2) costs to any partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization of $10,000 or more in a year; (3) costs to all persons (not including the federal government or a state government) in the aggregate of $25,000 or more in a year; or (4) the loss by one or more U.S. citizens of existing employment in a year.

]]> Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act Display Title Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act Official Title as Introduced To amend title 5, United States Code, to prohibit agencies from enforcing rules that result in a specified economic impact until the requirements of those rules are enacted into law by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act Introduced in House 2009-07-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr3396ih/xml/BILLS-111hr3396ih.xml 2009-09-14 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.