[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1341 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1341

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the Environmental 
 Protection Agency to include in any notice of rule making a statement 
  regarding the impact of the rule on jobs loss or creation, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 4, 2011

Mr. Olson (for himself, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
McKinley, and Mr. Farenthold) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the Environmental 
 Protection Agency to include in any notice of rule making a statement 
  regarding the impact of the rule on jobs loss or creation, 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 ``Establishing Public Accountability 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT ON JOBS STATEMENT REQUIRED FOR NOTICE OF RULE MAKINGS BY 
              EPA.

    Section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) in the case of a rule making by the Environmental 
        Protection Agency, a statement that identifies any net gain or 
        loss of domestic jobs that is likely to result if the rule is 
        adopted, and includes the analysis used to identify that net 
        gain or loss.''.
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