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H.R. 4305

U.S. HouseIn Senate Committee

Summary

H.R. 4305, the DUMP Red Tape Act, was introduced in the House on Jul 10, 2025 by Rep. Tony Wied (R) with 3 co-sponsors. It was referred to Small Business And Entrepreneurship, and last saw action on Dec 4, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.


Record

Text

H.R. 4305 has 3 co-sponsors, 1 roll call and 1 amendment.

hb4305/engrossed-in-house.txt
119 HR 4305 EH: Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act
U.S. House of Representatives
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Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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119th CONGRESS 1st Session
H. R. 4305
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AN ACT
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.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act or the DUMP Red Tape Act .
2.
Establishment of Red Tape Hotline
Section 203 of Public Law 94–305 ( 15 U.S.C. 634c ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
(c)
Red Tape Hotline
(1)
Establishment
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall—
(A)
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;
(B)
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
(C)
establish a website providing such email address, submission form, phone number, or other method in a manner that is easily accessible.
(2)
Report
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—
(A)
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);
(B)
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;
(C)
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;
(D)
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
(E)
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.
(3)
Definitions
In this subsection—
(A)
the term agency has the meaning given such term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and
(B)
the terms rule and small entity have the meanings given such terms, respectively, in section 601 of such title.
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Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025. Kevin F. McCumber, Clerk.

Tracker

The tracker indicates the progress of this legislation as it moves through the legislative process.

  1. Introduced2025-07-10
  2. Passed House2025-12-03
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Conference
  5. To President
  6. Became Law

CRS Summary

The summaries are the Congressional Research Service’s, one per stage. Read them in full.

Reported to House Nov 21, 2025

hb4305/reported-to-house.md

Shown Here:
Reported to House (11/21/2025)

Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act or the DUMP Red Tape Act

This 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 SBA and Congress information about the notifications received through the hotline.

Sponsors

Rep. Tony Wied (R) sponsors H.R. 4305, and 3 members have co-sponsored it.

Committees

H.R. 4305 went before 2 committees: Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Small Business.

Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Referred To · Dec 4, 2025 · 80 Bills
Small Business
Small Business
Reported By · Nov 21, 2025 · 81 Bills

Reports

1 committee report has been filed on H.R. 4305, the latest H. Rept. 119-383.

  • H. Rept. 119-383 — DESTROYING UNNECESSARY, MISALIGNED, AND PROHIBITIVE RED TAPE ACT

Actions

H.R. 4305 has taken 17 actions since Jul 10, 2025, the latest on Dec 4, 2025.

ChamberAction
Dec 4, 2025
Senate
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
Dec 3, 202516:33
House
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5011-5012)
Dec 3, 202516:47
House
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 269 - 146 (Roll no. 311). (text: CR 12/02/2025 H4989-4990)House roll call 311 269–146
Dec 3, 202516:47
House
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Dec 3, 202516:47
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 269 - 146 (Roll no. 311). (text: CR 12/02/2025 H4989-4990) roll call 311

Votes

H.R. 4305 went to 1 roll call in the House, the latest on Dec 3, 2025 at 269146.

ChamberQuestion
Yea
Nay
Dec 3, 2025
House
On Passage
269
146

Amendments

1 amendment has been offered to H.R. 4305, the latest acted on Dec 2, 2025.

2 bills are related to H.R. 4305.

HRES 916Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair competition with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1005) to prohibit elementary and secondary schools from accepting funds from or entering into contracts with the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1049) to ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child’s public school, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1069) to prohibit the availability of Federal education funds for elementary and secondary schools that receive direct or indirect support from the Government of the People’s Republic of China; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4305) 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.Dec 2, 2025 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · Related billS 4674DUMP Red Tape ActJun 3, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. · Related bill

Titles

H.R. 4305 goes by 11 titles, 8 of them short titles.

  • DUMP Red Tape Act — Display Title
  • DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
  • 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. — Official Title as Introduced
  • Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
  • Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Passed House
  • 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. — Official Titles from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
  • DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Passed House
  • DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Reported to House
  • Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Reported to House
  • Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act of 2025 — Short Title(s) as Introduced
  • DUMP Red Tape Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced

Lobbying

5 clients hired 5 firms and 117 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 4305 in 9 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Government Issues, Health Issues, Energy/Nuclear, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Small Business, Banking, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties.

Clients

Who paid to be heard, by how many filings named the bill.

ClientBusinessStateFirmsFilingsReported
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCDistrict of Columbia13
PUBLIC CITIZENDistrict of Columbia13
AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTEDistrict of Columbia11
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.District of Columbia11
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)Virginia11

Firms

Registrants who filed on the bill, by filings.

Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 117.

Filings

The documents themselves, on the Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure site, largest reported first.

ClientRegistrantPeriodReportedDocument
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.2025 fourth_quarter$18M4th Quarter - Report
AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTEAMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE2026 second_quarter$2.8M2nd Quarter - Report
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC.2026 second_quarter$700K2nd Quarter - Report
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC.2026 first_quarter$700K1st Quarter - Report
ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS INCASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC.2025 fourth_quarter$700K4th Quarter - Report
PUBLIC CITIZENPUBLIC CITIZEN2026 first_quarter$100.4K1st Quarter - Report
PUBLIC CITIZENPUBLIC CITIZEN2026 second_quarter$99.6K2nd Quarter - Report
PUBLIC CITIZENPUBLIC CITIZEN2025 fourth_quarter$73K4th Quarter - Report
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP COUNCIL (SBE COUNCIL)2025 fourth_quarter$30K4th Quarter - Report

Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 4305 under Commerce, one of its 31 policy areas, and gives it 5 legislative subjects.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 4305’s is Commerce.

hr4305/policy-areas.txt
CommerceAgriculture and FoodAnimalsArmed Forces and National SecurityArts, Culture, ReligionCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority IssuesCongressCrime and Law EnforcementEconomics and Public FinanceEducationEmergency ManagementEnergyEnvironmental ProtectionFamiliesFinance and Financial SectorForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment Operations and PoliticsHealthHousing and Community DevelopmentImmigrationInternational AffairsLabor and EmploymentLawNative AmericansPublic Lands and Natural ResourcesScience, Technology, CommunicationsSocial WelfareSports and RecreationTaxationTransportation and Public WorksWater Resources Development

Legislative Subjects

H.R. 4305 carries 5 of CRS’s legislative subjects, from Administrative law and regulatory procedures to Small Business Administration.

hr4305/subjects.txt
Administrative law and regulatory proceduresCongressional oversightGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsSmall Business Administration

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 4305, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 119 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. WIED:H.R. 4305.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1, Section 8[Page H3200]

Source: congress.gov · legiscan.com