Modernizing Retrospective Regulatory Review
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
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Summary
Modernizing Retrospective Regulatory Review Act would require agencies to publish machine-readable regulatory data and use technology, including algorithmic tools and artificial intelligence, to plan and carry out systematic reviews of existing rules. This sets firm deadlines and definitions to guide how reviews are done across the federal government.
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- Federal agencies would have to produce a machine-readable regulation availability report within 180 days and submit agency-wide retrospective review plans within 2 years. Those plans must identify strategies and prioritize regulations for review.
- Agencies would get guidance on using technology and AI to conduct retrospective reviews and to train personnel, issued within 18 months of enactment. This creates a formal role for algorithmic tools in review processes.
- The bill clarifies roles and definitions for the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator, the Government Publishing Office Director, and recognizes the eCFR in that framework. These definitions shape who implements and who oversees the changes.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Agency plans to review rules
This bill would require the head of each federal agency to send a plan to the OIRA Administrator and relevant congressional committees within 2 years of enactment. The plan would explain how the agency will use the new guidance to review existing rules and must list regulations required by law or that the agency head thinks need post-issuance review. The agency would have to start implementing any reviews in the plan within 180 days after it submits the plan.
Guidance on using AI for reviews
This bill would require OMB, through OIRA, to issue guidance within 18 months on how agencies can identify, buy, and use technology and algorithmic tools, including artificial intelligence, to conduct retrospective reviews. The guidance would explain how to spot obsolete, duplicative, excessively burdensome, or contradictory rules and would require agencies to train staff to use these tools. OIRA would consider the machine-readable rules report when making this guidance.
Report on machine-readable rules
This bill would require the OMB Director, through OIRA, to report to Congress within 180 days on how well agencies have made their regulations available in machine-readable form. The report would be prepared with input from the Government Publishing Office, the Archivist, and the Federal Register, and would say whether the eCFR is recognized as an official legal edition and how public access has changed.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
AZ • R
Cosponsors
Crane
AZ • R
Sponsored 1/3/2025
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