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Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2017
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Introduced in Senate on Jul 13, 2017
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S. 1559 (Introduced-in-Senate)


115th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1559


To ensure a complete analysis of the potential impacts of rules on small entities.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 13, 2017

Mr. Risch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

A BILL

To ensure a complete analysis of the potential impacts of rules on small entities.

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 “Hearing Small Businesses Act of 2017”.

SEC. 2. Expansion of covered agencies under the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Section 609 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “an initial regulatory flexibility analysis which a covered agency is required to conduct by this chapter” and inserting “a proposed rule or interim final rule for which a covered agency is required to conduct an initial regulatory flexibility analysis by this chapter”; and

(2) in subsection (d)—

(A) in paragraph (2), by striking “and” at the end;

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and

(C) by adding at the end the following:

“(4) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; and

“(5) the Internal Revenue Service.”.