US Congress House Bill 4655 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on May 9 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-07-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2013 [sic]- Amends the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 to: (1) require regulatory impact analyses for rules that do not involve a legislative mandate and for final rules that do not have a prior notice of proposed rulemaking; (2) require federal agencies to prepare and publish in the Federal Register an initial and final regulatory impact analysis prior to promulgating any proposed or final rule that may have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or that may result in the expenditure of $100 million or more in any one year by state, local, and tribal governments; (3) require such agencies to identify and consider regulatory alternatives before promulgating any proposed or final rule and select the least costly, most cost-effective, or least burdensome alternative; (4) define "cost" as the cost of compliance and any reasonably foreseeable indirect cost resulting from agency rulemaking; (5) exempt rules concerning monetary policy proposed or implemented by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Open Market Committee from provisions of such Act relating to regulatory accountability and reform, review of federal mandates, and judicial review; and (6) expand provisions relating to judicial review of regulatory impact analyses. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require independent regulatory agencies to conduct regulatory impact analyses.

Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2013

Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-07-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
2014-05-09	House	Referred to House Budget
2014-05-09	House	Referred to House Rules
2014-05-09	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2014-05-09	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2014-05-09	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB899 (Related) 2014-03-04 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
SB2931 (Related) 2014-11-17 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4655/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4655/BILLS-113hr4655ih.pdf