Title: To direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.

This Act may be cited as the   Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act   or the   DUMP Red Tape Act  .

Section 203 of  Public Law 94–305  ( 15 U.S.C. 634c ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall—

establish, operate, and maintain a hotline, to be known as the  Red Tape Hotline  to receive a notification from a small entity relating to the burden of complying with a rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity of an agency that is applicable to such concern;

establish an email address, submission form, phone number, or such other method as determined appropriate by the Chief Counsel for small entities to submit such notifications to such hotline; and

establish a website providing such email address, submission form, phone number, or other method in a manner that is easily accessible.

Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall submit to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Congress a report on the Red Tape Hotline that includes—

the rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities for which notifications are most frequently received, including the affected industry sectors for such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable);

a summary of the notifications received, including the type of small entity or other organization that submitted the notification and the geographic area and industry category from which the notification was sent;

an identification of the agency that issued each such rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, including an identification of which such rule, guidance, or policy statement such agency issued or an explanation of which such other activity the agency engaged in, as applicable;

recommendations for each agency that issued such a rule, guidance, policy statement, or engaged in such other activity, for reducing the burden of such rule, guidance, policy statement, or other activity on small entities; and

a summary of actions taken by the Chief Counsel to address such rules, guidance, policy statements, and other activities, including any such rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities (as applicable) for which the Chief Counsel submitted comments or analysis.

In this subsection—

the term  agency  has the meaning given such term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and

the terms  rule  and  small entity  have the meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601 of such title.

DUMP Red Tape Act

Wied, Tony

Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act or the DUMP Red Tape ActThis bill establishes a requirement for the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to continue to operate and maintain the Red Tape Hotline, which receives notifications from small entities about the burden of complying with applicable rules, guidance, policy statements, or other activities of a federal agency.The office must report annually to the&nbsp;SBA and Congress information about the notifications received through the hotline.&nbsp;