Current status is Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 368

1. Short title
2. Congressional review of agency rulemaking
3. Budgetary effects of rules subject to section 802 of title 5, United States Code

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Bureaucratic Limitation and Overreach Control Act" or the "BLOCK Act".

2. Congressional review of agency rulemaking

Chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

3. Budgetary effects of rules subject to section 802 of title 5, United States Code

Section 257(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

(E) Budgetary effects of rules subject to section 802 of title 5, United States Code - Any rule subject to the congressional approval procedure set forth in section 802 of chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, affecting budget authority, outlays, or receipts shall be assumed to be effective unless it is not approved in accordance with such section.