# 119-s-2427: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy Act of 2025

119-s-2427, Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID); status introduced (as of 2026-09-10).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2427
- Congress: 119
- Title: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-07-24
- Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-10

## 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. - 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.

## Provisions PRIA read

- No private right to sue: cost, medium. 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.
- New automatic sunset and extension rules: mixed, high. 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…
- Which agencies and rules face sunsets: mixed, high. 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 enact…
- Agencies keep existing legal powers: mixed, low. 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.

## Related bills

- 119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-1801: International Nuclear Energy Act of 2025
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-1949: Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act
- 119-s-4726: PEACE in Sudan Act
- 119-s-2010: TERMS Act

## Sources
- [119-s-2427 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2427)

## Related
- [119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4952)
- [119-s-1801: International Nuclear Energy Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1801)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-1949: Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1949)
- [119-s-4726: PEACE in Sudan Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4726)
- [119-s-2010: TERMS Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2010)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2427 (as of 2026-09-10).