More than a dozen new and proposed regulations will be coming out in Tuesday's Federal Register, covering everything from consumer financial laws to fruit from Malaysia. Here are the new rules:

Financial and Housing:
The Small Business Administration is removing the monetary limit for contracts to women-owned small businesses. 

The Washington Post offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) fended off a lobbying assault in his drive to create a new consumer finance protection agency.

While employees at some federal agencies are already taking unpaid time off, many regulatory agencies are dodging sequestration's cleaver, RegWatch reports.

Penny Pritzker’s financial dealings are certain to become an issue during her upcoming conformation hearings for the position of secretary of commerce, according to The New York Times.

The Obama administration and Kansas are on a legal collision course over the Sunflower State’s new law nullifying federal gun regulations, RegWatch reports.

Opinion: States looking to preserve their sovereign rights ought to take part in the creation on health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, opine professors Heather Gerken and Theodor Ruger in the Penn Program on Regulation’s RegBlog.

While employees at some federal agencies are already taking unpaid time off, many regulatory agencies are dodging sequestration's cleaver. 

Vacancies in the powerful Office of Management and Budget start at the executive level and go even deeper.

Attorney General Eric Holder has threatened litigation against Kansas over a new law that claims to nullify federal gun controls.

The fertilizer plant in Texas that exploded last month sought exemptions from federal safety regulations, according to a new report.

The Center for Public Integrity found that the West Chemical and Fertilizer company, which owns the plant, appears to have applied a 20-year-old provision.

The regulatory loophole says facilities that process fertilizer and sell to the ultimate consumer — usually farmers — are subject to less-rigorous worker safety and environmental regulations.

The Obama administration is changing a program to help bring broadband Internet service to rural areas.

Regulators are troubled by processes that add caffeine to food, a growing trend over which they currently have little oversight.

The SEC Regulatory Accountability Act would require the agency to conduct cost-benefit analyses on any new rules.