Requires federal agencies to review their existing regulations using technology, including artificial intelligence, and directs OMB to issue guidance and report on whether regulations are available in machine-readable format.

Official title: Modernizing Retrospective Regulatory Review

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Introduced 03-JAN-2025

Referred 03-JAN-2025

Approved by committee 21-MAY-2025

Key points

Requires OMB to report within 180 days on whether federal regulations are available in machine-readable format and on recognition of the eCFR as an official legal edition of the Code of Federal Regulations
Requires OMB, through OIRA, to issue guidance within 18 months on using algorithmic tools and AI to find obsolete, redundant, or erroneous regulations and to train agency personnel on them
Requires each agency head to submit a retrospective review plan within 2 years and to implement that plan within 180 days of submitting it

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Official CRS summary

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Committee referrals (1)

Policy area

Government Operations and Politics

Sponsor Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Cosponsors · 1

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1 Republican

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