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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4674 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4674
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business
Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications
of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 3, 2026
Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. Justice)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
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A BILL
To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business
Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications
of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.
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 ``Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned,
and Prohibitive Red Tape Act'' or the ``DUMP Red Tape Act''.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF RED TAPE HOTLINE.
Section 203 of Public Law 94-305 (15 U.S.C. 634c) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(c) Red Tape Hotline.--
``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection--
``(A) the term `agency' has the meaning given such
term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and
``(B) the terms `rule' and `small entity' have the
meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601
of such title.
``(2) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy
shall--
``(A) establish, operate, and maintain a hotline,
to be known as the Red Tape Hotline, to receive
notifications from small entities relating to the
burden of complying with a rule, guidance, policy
statement, or other activity of an agency that is
applicable to such concern;
``(B) establish an email address, submission form,
phone number, or such other method as determined
appropriate by the Chief Counsel for small entities to
submit such notifications to such hotline; and
``(C) establish a website providing such email
address, submission form, phone number, or other method
in a manner that is easily accessible.
``(3) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of the DUMP Red Tape Act, and annually thereafter,
the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the
Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Congress
a report on the Red Tape Hotline that includes--
``(A) the rules, guidance, policy statements, and
other activities for which notifications are most
frequently received, including the affected industry
sectors for such rules, guidance, policy statements, or
other activities (as applicable);
``(B) a summary of the notifications received,
including the type of small entity or other
organization that submitted the notification and the
geographic area and industry category from which the
notification was sent;
``(C) an identification of the agency that issued
each such rule, guidance, or policy statement, or
engaged in such other activity, including an
identification of which such rule, guidance, or policy
statement such agency issued or an explanation of which
such other activity the agency engaged in, as
applicable;
``(D) recommendations for each agency that issued
such rule, guidance, or policy statement, or engaged in
such other activity, for reducing the burden of such
rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity on
small entities; and
``(E) a summary of actions taken by the Chief
Counsel to address such rules, guidance, policy
statements, and other activities, including any such
rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities
(as applicable) for which the Chief Counsel submitted
comments or analysis.''.
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