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119-s-2427119th Congress

Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Risch, James E. [R-ID]

Introduced

Summary

Requires time-limited sunset dates on major energy and land-management regulations and sets a process for how agencies may extend or accelerate those sunsets with public input.

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  • Covered agencies would have to assign extendable sunset dates to each covered regulation and follow specified procedural and timing rules to extend or accelerate them.
  • "Covered regulations" are defined by statute for each agency, so rules under listed energy and land-management statutes would be time-limited rather than indefinite.
  • Members of the public would get formal chances to comment and provide information on a regulation’s costs and benefits when agencies consider extensions, and the bill does not create new private enforcement rights nor alter other agency powers.

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New automatic sunset and extension rules

If enacted, agencies would have to amend existing covered rules within 90 days so they expire within one year of that amendment. New covered rules would expire within five years by default. Agencies could extend expirations only up to five years after public comment and a finding that the extension is warranted. Agencies may extend without that process for amendments the agency says are net deregulatory, subject to limits.

Which agencies and rules face sunsets

If enacted, the bill would name which agencies and offices are "covered agencies." It would also list the specific laws whose rules count as "covered regulations." This decides which DOE, FERC, and Interior rules would face the new automatic sunset process. The definition would take effect on enactment.

No private right to sue

If enacted, the bill would say nothing in the Act creates a legal right or benefit that lets anyone sue the United States or its agencies under this law. Private parties could not bring enforcement claims based only on this Act. This rule would start on enactment.

Agencies keep existing legal powers

If enacted, the bill would include a savings clause saying it does not impair any authority agencies already have by law. Agencies would keep their statutory powers despite the new sunset framework. This clarification would take effect on enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Risch, James E. [R-ID]

ID • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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