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H.R. 1163: Prove It Act

ReportedMay 4, 2026

  1. Introduced (completed)Feb 10, 2025
  2. Passed House (not reached)
  3. Passed Senate (not reached)
  4. To the President (not reached)
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Summary

Introduced in House, Feb 10, 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.

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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.

Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

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Amendments

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Cosponsors

30

Who scored on this bill

38 points earned
  1. 1Brad Finstad R-MN SponsorIntroduced, marked up, reported, reached a cosponsor milestone4 events+38
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History

  1. Feb 10, 2025Introduced in the House by Brad Finstad.
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  1. May 4, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-108, Part II.
  2. May 4, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 552.
  3. May 21, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  4. May 21, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-108, Part I.
  5. May 21, 2025Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 14 - 12.
  6. Apr 30, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  7. Apr 30, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 15 - 11.
  8. Feb 10, 2025Introduced in House
  9. Feb 10, 2025Referred 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.