[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2199 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2199

     To require agencies to conform to concurrent resolutions when 
                          promulgating rules.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 22, 2015

     Mr. Enzi (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Daines) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require agencies to conform to concurrent resolutions when 
                          promulgating rules.

    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 Authority Clarification 
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS AND RULEMAKING.

    Section 553 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(f) If Congress adopts a concurrent resolution that clarifies the 
meaning of a provision of law, including a clarification as to whether 
a provision of law delegates certain authority to an agency, an 
agency--
            ``(1) may not promulgate a rule under this section that 
        conflicts with or otherwise does not carry out the meaning of 
        the provision, as provided in the concurrent resolution; and
            ``(2) shall promulgate new rules that carry out the meaning 
        of the provision, as provided in the concurrent resolution, if 
        the agency has a rule in effect that conflicts with or 
        otherwise does not carry out such meaning.''.
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