US Congress Senate Bill 4077 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on June 25 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-12-16 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 643.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Revises rulemaking requirements with respect to unfunded mandates. Specifically, the bill requires federal agencies to prepare and publish in the Federal Register an initial and final regulatory impact analysis prior to promulgating any proposed or final major rule. The analysis must include regulatory alternatives to the rule. Major rule means a rule that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs determines is likely to cause an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, federal, state, local, or tribal government agencies, or geographic regions; or significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, public health and safety, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export markets. Before promulgating any proposed or final major rule, an agency shall select the regulatory alternative that maximizes net benefits, taking into consideration only the costs and benefits that arise within the scope of the statutory provision that authorizes the rulemaking, with exceptions. The bill prohibits Congress from considering a bill that increases private sector costs more than a certain amount unless certain conditions are met.

Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act

Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]

Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]

Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]

Sen. Rick Scott [R-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-16	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 643.
2020-12-16	Senate	Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 116-333.
2020-07-22	Senate	Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
2020-06-25	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB7332 (Same As) 2020-06-25 - Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
SB870 (Related) 2019-03-26 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4077/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4077/BILLS-116s4077is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4077/BILLS-116s4077rs.pdf