[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4003 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4003

To require that in a notice of proposed rule making for a new rule, the 
  notice shall identify two rules which the agency intends to repeal.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 10, 2017

  Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that in a notice of proposed rule making for a new rule, the 
  notice shall identify two rules which the agency intends to repeal.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT TO REPEAL TWO RULES BEFORE MAKING A NEW RULE.

    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 notice of proposed rule making for a 
        new rule, except in the case of a new rule which is required by 
        statute, an identification of two rules that the agency intends 
        to repeal, including the date on which the agency began the 
        rule making process in order to repeal such rules.''.
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