HHS to Repeal SUNSET Rule
HHS to Repeal SUNSET Rule Tuesday, April 27, 2021 By way of background, on January 19, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely” (SUNSET) rule which would have amended nearly all of the approximately 18,000 HHS regulations to add self-executing expiration dates. Specifically, the final rule stated that “subject to certain [undefined] exceptions,” all regulations in Titles 21, 42, and 45 of the CFR would expire on the later of the following dates: (1) five years after the effective ...