Pass the Regulatory Decimation Act to require federal agencies to repeal ten existing regulations before issuing a new one and limit new regulatory costs.

Rick Scott · Florida · Republican

policy impact 0.68 specificity 0.92 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Congress should immediately pass these bills to remove bureaucratic hurdles that discourage Floridians from opening small businesses. These bills include: Regulatory Decimation Act

Scott called on Congress to immediately pass the Regulatory Decimation Act to require agencies to repeal ten rules before adding one and prevent higher regulatory costs.

Sen. Rick Scott Calls on Congress to Pass Bills to Cut Red Tape, Help Small Businesses Thrive
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Evidence

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Scott's Senate office announced that Scott, Ron Johnson, and James Lankford introduced the Regulatory Decimation Act to require ten repeals before a new regulation and cap new regulatory costs.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Concrete same-term action by Scott: he introduced and publicly urged passage of the bill. This supports serious effort, but does not show that the Act passed.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Sen. Rick Scott Leads Legislation to Cut Unnecessary Government Red Tape
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LegiScan lists S. 712, the Regulation Decimation Act, as introduced on February 25, 2025, with latest action read twice and referred to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The current available bill-status snapshot shows the Senate bill pending in committee, not enacted. No newer lookback-window evidence showed passage, reversal, or abandonment.

unresolved same_term A for effort

US SB712 | 2025-2026 | 119th Congress
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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown A for effort

Rick Scott materially advanced the promised policy by sponsoring S.712, the Regulation Decimation Act, in the Senate during the 119th Congress. However, the latest available status shows the bill only introduced and referred to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, with no Senate passage, House passage, presidential signature, or enacted law. Because the 119th Congress is still ongoing as of September 10, 2026, the promise is not delivered but remains pending rather than definitively failed.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%