S.1420: SMART Act of 2019

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Bill Summary

Setting Manageable Analysis Requirements in Text Act of 2019 or the SMART Act of 2019 This bill requires agencies, when publishing a proposed or final major rule, to include a framework for assessing whether the rule achieves its regulatory objective. An agency must assess a rule in the time frame included in the framework. The assessment must compare the rule's anticipated and actual benefits and costs. The bill defines a major rule as a rule...

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Bill Actions

Date Description
July 15, 2019
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 147.
July 15, 2019
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-55.
May 22, 2019
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. Hearings held.
May 22, 2019
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
May 15, 2019
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
May 13, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
May 13, 2019

Introduced in the Senate by Kyrsten Sinema (ID-Ariz.)

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