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House Bill 4305
119th Congress(2025-2026)
DUMP Red Tape Act
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Introduced in House on Jul 10, 2025
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H. R. 4305 (Reported-in-House)

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.


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]


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