# H.R. 4305 (119th): Destroying Unnecessary, Misaligned, and Prohibitive Red Tape Act or the DUMP Red Tape Act

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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: administrative_process. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulation_reduction. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_burden. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: small_business. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 311: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a generic regulatory-process measure that pursues a prudential good, reducing unnecessary compliance burdens on small entities through complaint intake and reporting. It contains no direct advancement of moral evil and no clear restraint of a named evil, so it falls in the mixed or prudential category rather than good or evil.
Theological note: Scripture gives government a real duty to act justly and to avoid burdening the weak through needless oppression, which gives this issue some relevance to equity for small enterprises. The measure itself is a procedural mechanism for collecting complaints and reporting on them, so its moral weight depends on how regulatory burdens are ultimately weighed and addressed. It does not directly restrain or advance a named moral harm.

## Recorded votes

Roll 311: On Passage. Yea 269 · Nay 146 · Other 17.

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