Bills
Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act
Bill #: H.3021
Session: 2025-2026
Topics:
Regulatory
This legislation raised serious concerns and mandates a blunt approach to removing unnecessary state regulations with little regard to preserving critical regulations that protect our environment, public health, and safety. This includes tasking an unelected committee to reduce the entire code of regulations by 25%, repealing laws that give agencies the authority to regulate, automatic expiration of regulations every seven years, and a number of other provisions that ultimately make the rulemaking process slower, harder, and more expensive. During the legislative process, the Senate made significant improvements to the bill in response to concerns raised by CVSC and numerous other stakeholders. While the House accepted many of those changes, it also added new provisions that raised similar concerns about weakening essential regulatory protections. A Senate motion to concur with the House amendments narrowly failed, sending the bill to a conference committee to reconcile the two versions. Although the final legislation still contains several troubling provisions, the conference committee process resulted in substantial improvements that mitigated many of the bill’s most concerning elements.
How Legislators Voted on H.3021
Votes:
- + Pro Conservation Vote
- - Anti Conservation Vote
- EA Excused Absence
- NV Not Voting
- N/A Not in Office
- A Abstained (Conflict of Interest)
Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act — Motion to Concurr with House Amendments
Motion to concur with House Amendments to H.3021 including concerning new provisions which walked back Senate improvements to the bill.
- + Pro Conservation Vote
- - Anti Conservation Vote
- EA Excused Absence
- NV Not Voting
- N/A Not in Office
- A Abstained (Conflict of Interest)
Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act, Second Reading
Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act, Second Reading of improved, amended version removing concerning provisions