[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4305 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4305

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
    To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications 
          of burdensome agency rules, 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 ``Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, 
and Prohibitive Red Tape Act'' or the ``DUMP Red Tape Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RED TAPE HOTLINE.

    Section 203 of Public Law 94-305 (15 U.S.C. 634c) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Red Tape Hotline.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for 
        Advocacy shall--
                    ``(A) establish, operate, and maintain a hotline, 
                to be known as the `Red Tape Hotline' to receive a 
                notification from a small entity relating to the burden 
                of complying with a rule, guidance, policy statement, 
                or other activity of an agency that is applicable to 
                such concern;
                    ``(B) establish an email address, submission form, 
                phone number, or such other method as determined 
                appropriate by the Chief Counsel for small entities to 
                submit such notifications to such hotline; and
                    ``(C) establish a website providing such email 
                address, submission form, phone number, or other method 
                in a manner that is easily accessible.
            ``(2) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
        enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the 
        Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the Administrator of 
        the Small Business Administration and Congress a report on the 
        Red Tape Hotline that includes--
                    ``(A) the rules, guidance, policy statements, and 
                other activities for which notifications are most 
                frequently received, including the affected industry 
                sectors for such rules, guidance, policy statements, or 
                other activities (as applicable);
                    ``(B) a summary of the notifications received, 
                including the type of small entity or other 
                organization that submitted the notification and the 
                geographic area and industry category from which the 
                notification was sent;
                    ``(C) an identification of the agency that issued 
                each such rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged 
                in such other activity, including an identification of 
                which such rule, guidance, or policy statement such 
                agency issued or an explanation of which such other 
                activity the agency engaged in, as applicable;
                    ``(D) recommendations for each agency that issued 
                such a rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in 
                such other activity, for reducing the burden of such 
                rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity on 
                small entities; and
                    ``(E) a summary of actions taken by the Chief 
                Counsel to address such rules, guidance, policy 
                statements, and other activities, including any such 
                rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities 
                (as applicable) for which the Chief Counsel submitted 
                comments or analysis.
            ``(3) Definitions.--In this subsection--
                    ``(A) the term `agency' has the meaning given such 
                term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and
                    ``(B) the terms `rule' and `small entity' have the 
                meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601 
                of such title.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
119th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 4305

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

    To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications 
          of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.