OIRA Administrator
Executive orders directing the OIRA Administrator · 6 in Search.
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Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations
This executive order directs federal agencies to catalog all criminal regulatory offenses, establish default mental-state (mens rea) requirements for future criminal enforcement, and discourage prosecution of strict liability regulatory crimes where defendants lacked knowledge of the rule. It exempts immigration and national security enforcement from its scope.
Modernizing Regulatory Review
This executive order updates the framework for federal regulatory review by raising the economic threshold for "significant regulatory actions" from $100 million to $200 million, requiring regulatory analysis to consider distributive impacts and equity, expanding public participation requirements to include underserved communities, and mandating OMB revise its key cost-benefit analysis guidance (Circular A-4) within one year.
Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking
This executive order requires that agency rules under the Administrative Procedure Act be signed and initiated only by senior political appointees rather than career civil servants, with the stated aim of strengthening democratic accountability. It mandates reviews of existing delegations of rulemaking authority and of significant rules issued over the prior 12 years to identify any that were not issued by senior appointees.
Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
This executive order requires federal agencies to clearly disclose when regulations carry criminal penalties and specify the mental state (mens rea) required for criminal violations. It directs agencies to favor civil over criminal enforcement for strict liability regulatory offenses and to publish guidance within 45 days on how they will handle criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.
Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information
This executive order establishes open and machine-readable formats as the default for new and modernized government information. It directs OMB to issue an Open Data Policy and sets specific deadlines for creating implementation tools, integrating open data into federal procurement and grants, and establishing performance tracking mechanisms across agencies.
Promoting International Regulatory Cooperation
This executive order directs federal agencies to coordinate international regulatory cooperation through an existing interagency working group, with the goal of reducing unnecessary differences between U.S. and foreign regulations that could harm American business competitiveness. It requires agencies to flag regulations with significant international impacts and consider foreign regulatory approaches when developing rules.