This resolution would repeal a regulation that allows states to establish payroll deduction savings programs and require employers that don’t have workplace savings programs to automatically deduct a specified amount of wages from their employees’ paychecks unless the worker opts out. The rule was finalized during the final months of the Obama administration.
Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress is able to overturn regulations finalized within the last 60 legislative days with simple majority votes on a joint resolution of disapproval in both chambers and the president’s signature. CRA resolutions also prevent the federal agency that created the regulation from issuing a similar rule without being directed to do so by Congress.
