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Rep. Ben Klein urges committee to advance bill strengthening Regulatory Flexibility Act
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Summary
Representative Ben Klein presented HR 358, the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act, and asked the House Small Business Committee to report the bill out to require small business review panels for major rules, account for indirect costs, and expand RFA coverage.
Representative Ben Klein asked the House Committee on Small Business to advance HR 358, the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act, saying the bill would force regulators to account for the full economic impact of major rules on small businesses.
“Small businesses around The United States are at a disadvantage when complying with burdensome federal regulations,” Representative Ben Klein said. He said agencies often ignore or underestimate costs to small firms and that HR 358 would strengthen the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) by requiring agencies to convene small business review panels for all major rules and by directing regulators to consider indirect compliance costs.
Klein said the bill would authorize the SBA chief advocacy official to issue rules on how agencies must perform analyses and would extend RFA requirements to all rules defined under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), not only traditional notice‑and‑comment rulemakings.
“HR 358, the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act, is a common sense effort to ensure regulators comply with the RFA's provisions as Congress intended,” Klein told the committee, and he asked members to report the bill out of committee for consideration.
The transcript record shows Klein presented the bill and sought committee action; no formal vote or amendment on HR 358 occurred during the Member Day hearing.
