A bill to amend Section 706 to Title 5, United States Code, to strengthen the judicial review provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act by giving courts more authority to overturn unfair agency action.

Summary

Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to direct a court reviewing an agency action to: (1) set aside an agency rule the asserted or necessary factual basis of which is found to be without substantial support in the rulemaking file; (2) determine whether the action is within the scope of agency jurisdiction or authority on the basis of the language of the authorizing statute or, in the event of ambiguity, other ascertainable legislative intent; and (3) not accord any presumption in favor of or against agency action in determining any other questions of law.

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Timeline

1. 4 August 1983

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 4 August 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 15 August 1983

   Referred

   Committee on Judiciary. Referred jointly to the Subcommittee on Courts.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 4 August 1983

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Bumpers, Dale [D-AR] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Nunn, Sam [D-GA] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Quayle, Dan [R-IN] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Heflin, Howell [D-AL] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Simpson, Alan K. [R-WY] · R · Sponsor
• Chuck Grassley · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Laxalt, Paul D. [R-NV] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC] · R · Cosponsor
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