CMS late last year also scaled back requirements on states that want to loosen health insurance rules put in place by the 2010 Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
The rules significantly scale back proposed requirements that the health care industry had denounced as unrealistic.
Microcap companies have already been given a one-year extension, and the S.E.C. is considering ways to scale back some requirements for small businesses.
Following backlash over the rocky institution of a new student assessment system last spring, Texas lawmakers are scrambling to scale back the requirements they passed four years ago.
But a provision tucked into the House bill during a Ways and Means Committee hearing last month would scale back those requirements, allowing companies to test their plans against more subjective standards and giving the Treasury Department authority to approve plans that do not meet today's tests.
The White House has drafted a proposal to scale back environmental requirements in an effort to make it easier to construct roads, bridges and pipelines across the country as part of an infrastructure plan that President Trump could release as soon as next week, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
Both the House bill, known as the 21st Century Cures Act, and a set of 19 smaller Senate bills endorse plans to create incentives and scale back regulatory requirements for certain high-priority treatments, such as drugs to treat rare, life-threatening infections.
Adding to environmentalists' worries, The Washington Post reported Friday on a second leaked draft document suggesting the White House aims to scale back environmental requirements to simplify and fast-track its infrastructure efforts.
House Republicans are also pushing to scale back the requirement for third-party testing for lead and other hazards in products sold to children.
Other proposals eliminate the fundamental requirement that forest management protect wildlife, reduce public involvement in forest planning and scale back long-standing requirements for environmental reviews and public participation in highway construction and offshore oil development.
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