Legislation· Dec 2024Sponsored by Brad Finstad (R)
Prove It Act of 2024
Would have required agencies to study indirect costs of rules on small businesses and let them challenge rules.
Tradeoff
Would have added extra review steps for federal rules that affect small businesses. Would have let small businesses ask the SBA to review agency rule decisions, and blocked some rules if agencies skipped the review.
What's in it
Increases the deficit by $17 million over 2025-2034, including $10 million in direct spending and $7 million in lost revenue.
The $17 million is the federal cost of running the SBA review process and related paperwork over ten years, while the bill's real impact falls on agencies writing rules and on the rules themselves, which could be delayed or voided.
The House passed this 208-196 on December 5, 2024, and the Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended.
House
Introduced
(Feb 1, 2024)
House
Committee on the Judiciary(Feb 1, 2024)
The bill went to more than one committee at the same time.
House
The committee voted to send it to the floor
Reported 17 - 10(Mar 21, 2024)
House
The Committee on Judiciary voted to send it to the floor
Reported(Sep 10, 2024)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-761, Part I.
House
On
Failed(Roll #488 · Dec 5, 2024)
197 yeanay 206House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #489 · Dec 5, 2024)
208 yeanay 196Senate
Received from the House
Received(Dec 9, 2024)
- Yadira Caraveo (D-CO)
- Nathaniel Moran (R-TX)
- Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Carol D. Miller (R-WV)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- Mike Flood (R-NE)
- Bryan Steil (R-WI)
- Mike Carey (R-OH)
- Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV)
- Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY)
- Aaron Bean (R-FL)
- Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Passage votes· Dec 5, 2024· 118th Congress · 2023–2025