Presumptively exempt small businesses from new agency rules
What the document says“Congress should presumptively exempt small businesses from new agency rules to force agencies to seek Advocacy’s input”
The chapter states that agencies currently avoid the Office of Advocacy's input by construing their rules as not having significant economic impact on small entities. Under the proposal new rules would apply to small businesses only with Advocacy signoff under specified criteria. It also asks that regulatory flexibility analysis cover indirect as well as direct costs.
What the document actually says“Congress should presumptively exempt small businesses from new agency rules to force agencies to seek Advocacy’s input”
Start by leaving small firms out of new rules. That makes agencies ask first.
New rules can hit small firms hard. One office is meant to speak for them. The book says small firms should be left out unless that office agrees.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The nearest is the Regulatory Freeze Pending Review memorandum of January 20, 2025, which bars agencies from proposing or issuing any rule until a new agency head reviews it and asks them to consider postponing effective dates by 60 days. It pauses rules for everyone rather than exempting small businesses from them, it is temporary, and it gives the Office of Advocacy no role and sets no criteria for applying a rule to small entities. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.