Prove It Act

U.S. Congress · HR1163 · Floor

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What the bill says

HR1163 · U.S. Congress · Floor

Introduced 2025-02-10. Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 552.

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Summary (plain-language)

Prove It Act of 2025 This bill expands the requirements for federal agency rulemaking with respect to small businesses, organizations, and governmental jurisdictions. Specifically, when conducting an initial regulatory flexibility analysis, agencies must include, where feasible, any reasonably foreseeable indirect costs the proposed rule may impose on small entities. Further, if an agency certifies that an initial regulatory flexibility analysis is not required because the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, the agency must provide such certification within 10 days to the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration. A small entity or group of small entities may petition the Office of Advocacy to review such certification. The petition must include specified information, such as the issues the petitioner believes should be addressed and a proposed solution to the issues raised. If the Office of Advocacy ultimately determines, upon a full review of the petition, that the proposed rule would have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, the agency promulgating the rule must perform an initial and final regulatory flexibility analysis for the rule. Additionally, if the agency does not participate or assist in the full review process, the finalized rule shall not apply to small entities. The bill also requires agencies to publish, and allow for comments on, all guidance documents with respect to any rule an agency determines is likely to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.

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Text versions

  • Introduced in House — 2025-02-10 — XML
  • Reported in House — 2026-05-04 — XML

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CBO cost estimates

  • H.R. 1163, Prove It Act — 2025-08-13

    As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on May 21, 2025

    Full estimate published at cbo.gov; it will appear here once an archived or committee-report copy is available.

  • H.R. 1163, Prove it Act — 2025-08-13

    As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 21, 2025

    Full estimate published at cbo.gov; it will appear here once an archived or committee-report copy is available.

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Action History

DateAction
2026-05-04Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-108, Part II.
2026-05-04Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 552.
2025-05-21Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2025-05-21Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-108, Part I.
2025-05-21Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 14 - 12.
2025-04-30Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2025-04-30Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 11.
2025-02-10Introduced in House
2025-02-10Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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