YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityCorporate BenefitsAverage Household ImpactFederal rules that courts upheld under Chevron deference would expire on a rolling schedule unless the agency reissues them.
Transparency & Accountability
- Sunset dates — Every rule upheld under Chevron gets an automatic expiration date
- GAO public reporting — Full list of affected rules due within 180 days
- Congressional disapproval window — 60-day filing deadline removed for listed rules
Corporate Benefits
- Regulatory obligations — Listed rules lapse unless the agency reissues them
Average Household Impact
- Consumer and safety rules in force — Listed rules end automatically on their sunset date
The details
Hundreds of federal rules would be put on a countdown to expiration. The rules affected are those that survived a court challenge under a doctrine called Chevron deference. It let judges defer to an agency's own reading of an unclear law. The Government Accountability Office would have 180 days to publish a list of every such rule still in effect. Each rule on that list would then get an expiration date. For each agency, the newest rule would expire 30 days after the list is published. The next-oldest would expire 30 days after that, and so on down the line. A rule would simply cease to have force unless the agency writes it again through the normal rulemaking process. The bill would also remove the 60-day deadline Congress normally faces to file a resolution overturning any rule on the list.
Congressional Summary
Sunset Chevron ActThis bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to compile a list of federal agency rules that were upheld under the administrative law doctrine of Chevron deference. It also establishes sunset dates for the rules and requires the GAO list to include the dates.(In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council and held that courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority. Under Loper, the courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous, as the Chevron doctrine required.)The GAO list must include each federal court decision that (1) upheld a rule based on Chevron deference, (2) was not subsequently overturned, and (3) pertains to a rule that is in effect on the date of enactment of this bill. The list must also include a sunset date for each identified rule.The sunset date for each agency's most recent rule on the list must be 30 days after the list is published. The sunset date for each prior rule of the agency must be 30 days after the sunset date of the rule preceding it on the list. Further, rules identified on the list are subject to a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act without regard to the 60-legislative-day limit on the period for filing such a resolution after a rule has been received by Congress.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-01-09
- Date Added
- 2026-07-31
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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