[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4280 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4280

  To provide for the sunset of rules one year after the date on which 
              they are finalized, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 2017

   Mr. Kelly of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the sunset of rules one year after the date on which 
              they are finalized, 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 ``Ensuring Regulations are Successful 
or Ended Act of 2017'' or the ``ERASE Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. SUNSET FOR RULES.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any rule (as 
such term is defined in section 551 of title 5, United States Code) 
that is finalized after the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
sunset on the date that is one year after the date on which the rule is 
finalized.
    (b) Congressional Approval.--The sunset under subsection (a) shall 
not apply to a rule described in that subsection if a joint resolution 
is enacted which provides for the continuance of that rule.
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