To amend the Truth in Regulating Act to make permanent the pilot project for the report on rules.

Amends the Truth in Regulating Act of 2000 to continue for an additional three-year period the pilot project that permits a chairman or ranking member of a committee of jurisdiction of either House of Congress to request the Comptroller General to review an economically significant rule that may have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more, or that will adversely affect in a material way the economy (or a sector), productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or state, local, or tribal governments or communities.

Authorizes appropriations to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to carry out the Act for FY2007-FY2009.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1167 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1167

   To amend the Truth in Regulating Act to make permanent the pilot 
                    project for the report on rules.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2005

  Mrs. Kelly introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Truth in Regulating Act to make permanent the pilot 
                    project for the report on rules.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF TRUTH IN REGULATING ACT TO MAKE PERMANENT PILOT 
              PROJECT FOR REPORT ON RULES.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to make permanent the 
authority to request the performance of regulatory analysis to enhance 
Congressional responsibility for regulatory decisions developed under 
the laws enacted by Congress.
    (b) Amendment.--The Truth in Regulating Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106-312; 5 U.S.C. 801 note) is amended--
            (1) in the heading for section 4, by striking ``pilot 
        project for'';
            (2) by striking section 5 and redesignating section 6 as 
        section 5; and
            (3) in section 5 (as redesignated by paragraph (2))--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``and duration of 
                pilot project'';
                    (B) in subsection (a), by striking ``(a) Effective 
                Date.--''; and
                    (C) by striking subsections (b) and (c).
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