RESTART SUNSET Act of 2025

The RESTART SUNSET Act of 2025 would overhaul how federal rules are reviewed and enforced. It amends the periodic-review framework in 5 U.S.C. to require ongoing, regular evaluation of agency rules, with new ten-year review windows for both pre-existing and post-enactment rules. It also adds an annual requirement for agencies to publish a list identifying rules that do not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, and it creates a new judicial remedy: if a court finds an agency failed to comply with the rule-review requirements, it can prohibit enforcement of the noncompliant rule. The overall aim appears to enhance evidence-based scrutiny of regulations and to enable more immediate shielding of the public from noncompliant rules. In plain terms, this bill pushes agencies to continually reassess their regulations, requires more transparency about small-entity impacts, and gives courts a power to stop enforcement of rules that do not meet the new review standards.