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In its final days, the Trump administration created a rule that could eliminate thousands of regulations created by the Department of Health and Human Services. A lawsuit is challenging the rule.
Share With the outcome of last week’s Georgia Senate runoff elections producing a 50-50 Senate ratio and giving Senate Democrats majority status, there is renewed interest in the Congressional Review Act (CRA) (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.). Under the CRA, a new Congress can act within its first 75 days of legislative session to reverse “major rules” promulgated by federal agencies during the last 60 legislative days of the previous Congress. In 2017, Congress used the CRA to pass “resolutions of disapproval” and nullify 16 different federal regulations promulgated in the last months of the...
HHS Finalizes Unprecedented Regulatory Reform through Retrospective Review Today, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule* to further democratic values of accountability and transparency. Specifically, the Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely (SUNSET) rule requires the Department to assess its regulations every ten years to determine whether they are subject to review under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), which requires regular review of significant regulations. If a given regulation is subject to the RFA, the Department must review the reg...
HHS Secretary Alex Azar (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday released a final rule requiring the agency to review its regulations once every ten years. If a regulation is not reviewed, it may expire, said HHS. The Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely, or "SUNSET," rule, means that rules that are issued by an HHS component that are more than ten years old will need to be reviewed within five years. "By terminating burdensome regulations unless their necessity is publicly demonstrated to the American people, ou...