# 119-s-60: Write the Laws Act

119-s-60, Write the Laws Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] (R-KY); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-60
- Congress: 119
- Title: Write the Laws Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-09
- Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] (R-KY)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Preventing Congress from delegating its lawmaking power.** This bill would bar Congress from assigning legislative authority to the President, agencies, courts, states, or private entities and create a legal framework to void noncompliant laws, rules, and decisions. - Members of Congress would have to write laws that fully define criminal and civil offenses and non-criminal rules instead of leaving key policy choices to agencies. - Federal agencies and the President would face a strict limit on rulemaking and directives; any rule, directive, or adjudicative decision that does not meet the bill's nondelegation standard would have no force or effect 90 days after enactment. - The Comptroller General would report within 6 months identifying preexisting statutes that contain prohibited delegations, and private parties could bring civil suits seeking injunctive relief against enforcement with de novo judicial review.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Anyone can sue over bad delegations: mixed, high. If enacted, any person 'aggrieved' by an Executive action taken under a statute that fails the nondelegation test would be able to sue the United States under the Declaratory Judgment Act. Plaintiffs could seek injunctions and other relief. Courts would review these suits de novo.
- Applies only to future actions: mixed, high. If enacted, the rule would apply only to laws, presidential directives, adjudicative decisions, rules, or changes made 90 days after the chapter is enacted. It would not affect instruments made before that 90-day date. This could create a period of uncertainty as Congress and agencies review older…
- Ban on delegating lawmaking power: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would bar Congress from giving lawmaking power to the President, agencies, courts, States, quasi-public bodies, or private parties. It would count creating or clarifying crimes, civil offenses, or non-criminal rules as lawmaking unless the rule is fully and completely defined i…
- Noncompliant rules have no force: mixed, high. If enacted, any Act, presidential directive, adjudicative decision, rule, or regulation that fails the bill's nondelegation test would have no force or effect. No legal, equitable, regulatory, civil, or criminal action could be brought under such noncompliant instruments. Rules that regulate only f…
- GAO must list old delegations: mixed, medium. If enacted, the Comptroller General (GAO) would have 6 months to send Congress a report. The report must identify statutes enacted before the 90-day cutoff that contain delegations the new chapter would prohibit. The report would only catalog those statutes and would not itself change the law.

## Related bills

- 119-sconres-39: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetar…
- 119-sconres-22: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetar…
- 119-s-3362: Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts for All Act
- 119-s-3248: Health Savings Accounts For All Act of 2025
- 119-s-2886: America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025
- 119-s-3752: SAVE America Act

## Sources
- [119-s-60 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/60)

## Related
- [119-sconres-39: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United S…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-sconres-39)
- [119-sconres-22: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United S…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-sconres-22)
- [119-s-3362: Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts for All Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3362)
- [119-s-3248: Health Savings Accounts For All Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3248)
- [119-s-2886: America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2886)
- [119-s-3752: SAVE America Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3752)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-60 (as of 2025-12-21).