14. Department of Health and Human Services · Notable · Needs Congress
Reinstate and codify the HHS SUNSET rule
Printed page 488 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“Reinstate the HHS SUNSET (Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely) rule. Congress should codify the now-reversed Trump Administration rule that required all HHS agencies to review regulations retrospectively and publish results; without such a review, regulations expire.”
What has happened
- Not started
Neither limb happened. HHS has not reinstated the SUNSET rule (85 FR 70096) by rulemaking - it has no SUNSET rulemaking on its regulatory agenda at any stage - and Congress has enacted nothing codifying retrospective review with automatic expiration.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Federal Register full text “Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely” since 2025-01-20: 0 documents.
- reginfo.gov, the full HHS agenda, all three stages read entry by entry: 184 active RINs, 32 long-term actions and 38 completed actions. No SUNSET RIN, and no successor to the 2021 rule’s RIN 0991-AC24. HHS/OS’s deregulatory entries are RIN 0991-AC43 Petition Process for Rulemaking and Regulatory Review and the acquisition-regulation reviews; neither is retrospective review with expiry.
- The titles of the bills we keep and search, for “SUNSET” or “retrospective review”: eleven bills, none about HHS regulations. H.R. 489 (Federal Agency Sunset Commission Act of 2025) is government-wide and was referred.
- Action
- reinstate
- Object
- HHS SUNSET rule
- ID
- 1362