[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1170 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1170

To require each Federal agency to review rules made after the enactment 
of the Congressional Review Act to ensure that all such rules were made 
          in compliance with the Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2017

Ms. McSally (for herself, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Walker, and Mr. 
   Palmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require each Federal agency to review rules made after the enactment 
of the Congressional Review Act to ensure that all such rules were made 
          in compliance with the Act, 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 ``Require CRA Compliance Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON NONCOMPLIANT RULES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than the relevant date specified under 
subsection (b), each Federal agency shall, for each category of rules 
specified in subsection (b)--
            (1) make a determination in the case of each rule included 
        in such category as to whether the agency complied with the 
        requirements of section 801(a)(1)(A) of title 5, United States 
        Code, by submitting the report on such rule required under such 
        section to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the 
        Comptroller General of the United States;
            (2) compile a list of each such rule with regard to which 
        the agency did not so comply; and
            (3) submit such list to--
                    (A) the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                Reform of the House of Representatives;
                    (B) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
                Representatives;
                    (C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
                    (D) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
    (b) Timeframes.--The relevant date specified under this section is 
as follows:
            (1) For the category of rules composed of each major rule 
        (as such term is defined in section 804 of title 5, United 
        States Code) finalized after January 20, 2009, the date that is 
        30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) For the category of rules composed of each rule 
        finalized after January 20, 2009, other than a rule included in 
        paragraph (1), the date that is 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act.
            (3) For the category of rules composed of each rule 
        finalized after March 29, 1996, and on or before January 20, 
        2009, the date that is 120 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    Terms used in this Act have the meanings given such terms in 
section 804 of title 5, United States Code.
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