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[H.R. 4305 Reported in House (RH)]
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Union Calendar No. 333
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4305
[Report No. 119-383]
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.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 10, 2025
Mr. Wied introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Small Business
November 21, 2025
Additional sponsors: Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Schmidt, and Mr. Patronis
November 21, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July
10, 2025]
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A BILL
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.''.
Union Calendar No. 333
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4305
[Report No. 119-383]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
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.
_______________________________________________________________________
November 21, 2025
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed