US Congress Senate Bill 909 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on March 27 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Modifies the scope of judicial review of agency actions to authorize courts reviewing agency actions to decide de novo (i.e., without giving deference to the agency's interpretation) all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation of (1) constitutional and statutory provisions, and (2) rules made by agencies. Further, this bill prohibits reviewing courts from deferring to an agency's interpretation of a question of law when the authorizing statutory or regulatory provision is silent or ambiguous with respect to an agency's authority. No law may exempt a civil action from the standard of review required by this bill except by specific reference to such provision.

Separation of Powers Restoration Act

Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]
Sen. Josh Hawley [R-MO]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]
Sen. Mike Rounds [R-SD]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Mike Braun [R-IN]	Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA]
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-27	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

HB1927 (Related) 2019-05-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
HB7895 (Related) 2020-07-31 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/909/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s909/BILLS-116s909is.pdf