[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 964 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 964

  To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the Environmental 
 Protection Agency to include in any notice of rulemaking a statement 
regarding the impact of the rule on job loss or creation, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2021

   Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
McCaul, Mr. Babin, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Mann) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 5, United States Code, to require the Environmental 
 Protection Agency to include in any notice of rulemaking a statement 
regarding the impact of the rule on job loss or creation, 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 ``Establishing Public Accountability 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EFFECT ON JOBS STATEMENT REQUIRED FOR NOTICE OF RULEMAKINGS BY 
              EPA.

    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 rulemaking by the Environmental 
        Protection Agency, a statement that identifies any net gain or 
        loss of domestic jobs that is likely to result if the rule is 
        adopted, and includes the analysis used to identify that net 
        gain or loss.''.
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