This bill directs the Small Business Administration's Chief Counsel for Advocacy to establish a hotline (via email, website, and phone) where small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments can report government actions they find burdensome. The hotline must be operational within 180 days of the bill's enactment. When the office receives multiple complaints about a specific rule that significantly impacts small entities, it should consider regulatory alternatives that achieve the government's goals while reducing burden. Starting one year after the hotline launches and annually thereafter, the Chief Counsel must submit detailed reports to Congress documenting which government actions generate the most complaints, the affected industries, the costs imposed on small entities, and recommendations for reducing regulatory burden. The bill affects small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments nationwide by giving them a formal channel to flag problematic regulations, with no specific funding amount allocated in the legislation itself.
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