HR 4305
Passed a chamber
Requires the Small Business Administration's Chief Counsel for Advocacy to set up a Red Tape Hotline where small businesses can report federal rules and other agency actions they find burdensome.
Official title: DUMP Red Tape Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
10-JUL-2025
Referred
10-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
18-NOV-2025
Reported
21-NOV-2025
On the calendar
21-NOV-2025
Passed
03-DEC-2025
Senate
Received
04-DEC-2025
- Requires the Chief Counsel for Advocacy to establish, operate, and maintain the Red Tape Hotline within 180 days of enactment, with a public website listing how to submit notifications
- Requires an annual report to the SBA Administrator and Congress listing the most frequently reported rules, the agencies involved, and recommendations for reducing small-entity burdens
- Adds new subsection (c) to Section 203 of Public Law 94-305 (15 U.S.C. 634c) and defines agency, rule, and small entity by reference to Title 5
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Reported to House" (21-NOV-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 03-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Small Business Committee (House)
- Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee (Senate)
Commerce
■ 3 R
3 Republicans