[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 662 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 662

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2021

  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 rulemaking for a new rule, the 
 notice shall identify three 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Government Red-Tape Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REPEAL THREE 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 three 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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