[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2142 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2142

  To allow remote participation on review panels under the Regulatory 
                Flexibility Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 2019

  Ms. Collins (for herself and Mrs. Shaheen) 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 allow remote participation on review panels under the Regulatory 
                Flexibility 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 ``Helping Entrepreneurs Affects 
Regulatory Decisions Act of 2019'' or the ``HEARD Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT.

    Section 609(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``, through an in-person 
        meeting or by electronic participation,'' after ``panel'';
            (2) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (3) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) a covered agency shall take reasonable steps to 
        ensure that representatives of small entities may participate 
        electronically in a review panel convened under this 
        subsection.''.
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