Contact Congress about S. 76: SMART Act of 2025

Federal agencies would have to build review plans into major new rules. Later, they would compare the rule’s real-world results with what they expected. Courts could force publication, but could not judge whether the review was good enough.

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SMART Act of 2025 is a Senate bill in committee. The latest recorded action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Latest action on S. 76: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects federal agencies that write major rules and the people or groups covered by those rules. Businesses, state and local governments, workers, consumers, and communities could see more follow-up reviews of major federal rules. The White House rule-review office would get more power to guide, coordinate, and sometimes excuse agency reviews. Courts would have less power here because they could only check whether agencies published required documents.

Why this matters: Major federal rules can affect prices, jobs, public health, safety, and the environment for years. This bill would push agencies to check those rules against real-world results after they take effect. It could make rule reviews more open and regular. It could also add work for agencies and give the White House rule-review office more control. The bill does not say whether rules would become weaker, stronger, cheaper, or more protective. That would depend on how agencies use the review process.

Key provisions in S. 76

• The bill defines a major rule by its real-world impact. That includes very large economic effects or major effects on costs, prices, competition, jobs, innovation, health, safety, the environment, or U.S. business strength.
• Agencies would have to write review plans for all new final major rules. Each plan must list the rule’s goals, expected benefits and costs, review methods, data and public input plans, and a deadline no more than 10 years after the rule starts.
• Agencies would later have to check each major rule with real data. They must compare actual benefits and costs with their earlier forecasts, then decide whether to keep, change, expand, simplify, or replace the rule.
• Agencies would have to post each review result on their websites within 180 days after finishing it. They must also list what events or conditions would trigger another review.
• The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the White House rule-review office, would guide the process. Its administrator could coordinate agency reviews, exempt some rules from the planning step, and give agencies up to 90 extra days to finish a review.

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Questions people ask about S. 76

What is S. 76?

Federal agencies would have to build review plans into major new rules. Later, they would compare the rule’s real-world results with what they expected. Courts could force publication, but could not judge whether the review was good enough.

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