Combating over -criminalization in federal regulations – the White House –

The authority, which has referred me as president through the constitution and the laws of the United States, is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The United States are drastically over -regulated. The code of the federal regulations contains over 48,000 sections that stretch over 175,000 pages – far more than any citizen may read, let alone understand completely. Even worse, many lead potential criminal punishments for violations. The situation has become so bad that nobody -likely to be charged with the enforcement of our criminal laws in the Ministry of Justice, knows how many separate crimes are included in the code of the federal regulations, with at least one source appreciating hundreds of thousands of such crimes. Many of these regulatory breaks are “strict liability crimes”, which means that the citizens do not have to have a culprit mental state in order to be convicted of crime.

This status quo is absurd and unfair. It enables the executive to write the law in addition to the execution. This situation can be suitable for abuse and weapons by reorienting government officials tools in order to target ignorant people. It is privileged large companies that can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory systems and new market participants, over average Americans.

The purpose of this arrangement is to reduce the official burden for everyday Americans and ensure that no American is transformed into a criminal because they violate a regulation that they have no reason to know that it exists.

Sec. 2. policy. It is the policy of the United States that:

(a) The criminal implementation of criminal regulatory offenses is unfavorable.

(b) Persecution of crimes for criminal supervisory authorities is best suited for persons who can be knowledge or assumed what is prohibited or required by the regulation and willingly decide not to adhere to, which causes considerable public damage or risked. The law enforcement of criminal supervisory authorities should concentrate on matters in which a suspected accused supposedly knew that his behavior was illegal.

(c) Strict liability crimes are “generally unfavorable”. United States against United States Gypsum, Co.438 US 422, 438 (1978). If the enforcement is appropriate, agencies should consider civilian than the criminal enforcement of strict liability authorities or, if necessary, correspond to the proper procedure and the right to jury negotiation. see Jarkesy against Securities and Exchange Commission603 US 109 (2024), administrative enforcement.

(d) agencies that issue regulations that may be subject to criminal enforcement should expressly describe the behavior, the criminal enforcement, the approval laws and the REA standard applicable to these crimes.

Sec. 3. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:

(a) “agency” has the importance of the “executive agency” in Section 105 of Title 5, United States Code;

(b) “Criminal offense of punitive supervisory authorities” a federal regulation that can be enforced by a punishment; And

(c) “Herrenrea” describes the state of mind that must be proven by law in order to condemn a certain defendant of a certain crime.

Sec. 4. Report on criminal offenses. (a) Within 365 days after the date of this order, the head of each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, must contain a report to the director of the Office for Management and Household (OMB):

(i) a list of all criminal criminal violations that can be enforced by the agency or the Ministry of Justice; And

(ii) for each criminal criminal criminal criminal criminal offense of the potential criminal punishment for a violation and the applicable REA standard for the criminal regulatory penalty.

(b) At the same time, the head of each agency provides the OMB director to the report on paragraph (a) of this section and publicly publish the agency managers on the agency's website.

(c) The head of each agency has to update regularly, but no less than once a year, the report described in the sub -section (a) of this section.

(d) The criminal enforcement of criminal criminal offense, which was not determined in the report described in the sub -section (a) of this section, is greatly discouraged. The head of each agency checks whether a criminal criminal crime is included in the public report of an agency if he checks whether there is a criminal transfer to the Ministry of Justice or, if necessary, to the general inspector of the agency. In addition, the Attorney General will check whether a criminal offense is included in the public report of an agency before an investigation is initiated or criminal proceedings are initiated due to violation of the official standards.

Sec. 5. Promotion of regulatory transparency. (a) After the granting of this order, all future references to the proposed regulation (NPRMS) and the final rules published in the published Federal registerThe violation can represent criminal supervisory authorities, should an explanation contain that determines that the rule or the proposed rule is a criminal offense and the approval law. Agencies should design this declaration in consultation with the Ministry of Justice.

(b) The regulatory text of all NPRMs and final rules with criminal consequences published in which were published Federal register After the date of this order, a men's reaction should expressly state for each element of a criminal violation of the responsible provisions of the Authorization Act.

(c) Criminal offenses of the strict liability criminals become unfavorable. All proposed or final criminal criminals that contain a strict liability -mens -REA for the crime is treated as a “essential official lawsuit” and the administrator of the Office for Information and Regulation Matters for reviewing the review for significant supervisory measures in accordance with the instructions 12866 of September 30, 1993 or one Succession process or in the event of a follow -up process.

Sec. 6. Delayed REA for criminal regulatory offenses. (a) The head of each agency in consultation with the Attorney General checks the statutory authorities of the agency and determines whether it is authorized to adopt a background REA standard for criminal regulatory crimes, unless a specific regulation gives an alternative men.

(b) Within 30 days after submitting the report described in Section 4 (a) of this arrangement, the head of each agency, in consultation with the Attorney General, delivers a report to the director of the OMB, which summarizes the information submitted in accordance with Section 4 (a), and the assessment of the applicable Mens REA standards for criminal regulatory crimes that enforce the agency Contracts were enforced. In accordance with the statutory authorities, which were identified in accordance with the review described in the sub -section (a) of this section, the report should present a plan for the change in applicable REA standards for men and list a generally applicable background -Rea standard and for any criminal regulatory sentence for which the agency suggests the REE standard standard for the use of the fulfillment of men finish.

Sec. 7. Transfers for the potential criminal enforcement of agencies. Within 45 days after the date of this order and in consultation with the General Prosecutor, each agency should publish guidelines in the Federal register Description of the plan to combat criminal regulatory criminal offenses. The guidance of each agency should make it clear that the agency decides whether it forwards alleged violations of criminal regulatory crimes to the Ministry of Justice, factors such as:

(a) caused the damage or risk of damage, financial or other than more by the alleged crime;

(b) the potential gain for the alleged defendant who could result from the crime;

(c) whether the alleged accused of specialized knowledge, specialist knowledge or in an industry in relation to the rule or regulation in question was licensed; And

(d) Evidence of the general awareness of the alleged defendant for the illegality of his behavior as well as his knowledge or his absence of the regulation in question.

Sec. 8. Effects on the enforcement of immigration and the national security functions. Nothing in this order applies to the enforcement of the immigration laws or regulations that have been issued to implement such laws, and it does not apply to the enforcement of laws or regulations in connection with national security or defense.

Sec. 9. General provisions. (a) Nothing in this order must be affected or influenced in any other way:

(i) the legally to an executive department or agency of its legally required authority; or

(II) The functions of the Director of the Office for Management and Household with regard to budget, administrative or legislative proposals.

(b) This arrangement is in accordance with the applicable law and is subject to the availability of funds.

(c) This arrangement is not intended and does not create a right or benefit, in terms of content or procedure, through a party against the United States, their departments, agencies or companies, its managers, employees or agents or another person.

Donald J. Trump

The white house,

May 9, 2025.