Regulatory Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 3525 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3525 To improve agency rulemaking, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2025 Ms. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To improve agency rulemaking, 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 ``Regulatory Accountability Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. Section 551 of title 5, United States Code, is amended-- (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``rule making'' and inserting ``rulemaking''; (2) in paragraph (6), by striking ``rule making'' and inserting ``rulemaking''; (3) in paragraph (13), by striking ``and'' at the end; (4) in paragraph (14), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and (5) by adding at the end the following: ``(15) `guidance' means an agency statement of general applicability that-- ``(A) is not intended to have the force and effect of law; and ``(B) sets forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue or an interpretation of a statutory or regulatory issue; ``(16) `major guidance' means guidance that the Administrator finds is-- ``(A) likely to lead to-- ``(i) any annual effect on the economy; ``(ii) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, local, or Tribal government agencies, or geographic regions; or ``(iii) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, public health and safety, or the ability of United States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export ma