[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1681 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1681

   To provide that certain regulations shall not take effect unless 
  published in final form not later than 18 months after the date of 
         publication of general notice of proposed rulemaking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 1995

  Mr. Tate (for himself and Mr. Nethercutt) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that certain regulations shall not take effect unless 
  published in final form not later than 18 months after the date of 
         publication of general notice of proposed rulemaking.
    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 Efficiency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NEW REGULATIONS.

    (a) Requirement.--A covered regulation shall not take effect unless 
it is published in final form not later than 18 months after the date 
of publication of a general notice of proposed rulemaking for the 
regulation under section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code.
    (b) Covered Regulation Defined.--In this section the term ``covered 
regulation'' means the whole or a part of an agency statement of 
general or particular applicability and future effect designed to 
implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy, other than such a 
statement to carry out a routine administrative function of an agency, 
for which a general notice of proposed rulemaking is required to be 
published under section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code, after 
the first day of the 18-month period ending on the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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