[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1577 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1577

  To amend title 5, United States Code, with respect to the judicial 
     review of agency interpretations of statutory and regulatory 
                              provisions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2017

 Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Lee, Mr. Cruz, 
   Mr. Sasse, Mr. Flake, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. 
   Lankford) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, with respect to the judicial 
     review of agency interpretations of statutory and regulatory 
                              provisions.

    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 ``Separation of Powers Restoration Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. JUDICIAL REVIEW OF STATUTORY AND REGULATORY INTERPRETATIONS.

    Section 706 of title 5, United States Code, is amended, in the 
matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``all relevant questions of 
law, interpret constitutional and statutory provisions'' and inserting 
``de novo all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation 
of constitutional and statutory provisions and rules''.
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