The Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy announced a roundtable on September 9, 2025 at 2pm to discuss the Justice Department’s August 15, 2025 request for information (RFI) regarding Burdensome State Regulations. In the RFI, the Justice Department seeks comments detailing State laws, regulations, causes of action, policies, and practices “that adversely affect interstate commerce and business activities in other States.”
More specifically, the Department invites comments on four issues: (1) which state laws significantly burden commerce in other states or between states, thus raising costs unnecessarily and harming markets nationwide; (2) whether the state laws identified may be preempted by existing federal authority and, if so, what authority; (3) whether there may be federal legislative or regulatory means for addressing the state laws or regulations identified or the burdens they cause; and (4) which federal agency has the subject-matter expertise to address concerns lawfully within the federal government’s authority.
The roundtable will be held through Microsoft Teams and those interested in participating must register here.