Government Red-Tape Reduction Act
This bill requires federal agencies to identify three rules that the agency is repealing for any proposed new rule, unless the proposed rule is required by statute.
To require that in a notice of proposed rulemaking for a new rule, the 
 notice shall identify three rules which the agency intends to repeal.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Government Red-Tape Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REPEAL THREE RULES BEFORE MAKING A NEW RULE.

    Section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) in the case of a notice of proposed rule making for a 
        new rule, except in the case of a new rule which is required by 
        statute, an identification of three rules that the agency 
        intends to repeal, including the date on which the agency began 
        the rule making process in order to repeal such rules.''.
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Government Red-Tape Reduction Act
To require that in a notice of proposed rulemaking for a new rule, the notice shall identify three rules which the agency intends to repeal.
Government Red-Tape Reduction Act
Rep. Posey, Bill