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Access to Agency Guidance Documents
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Access to Agency Guidance Documents

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Introduced8 days ago
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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Government Operations and PoliticsAdministrative law and regulatory proceduresGovernment information and archives
Why This Matters

This bill increases public access to guidance documents issued by government agencies by requiring their publication online.

If you need information on government policies, you can find it more easily online thanks to this bill.
Who this affects
Individuals · Businesses
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1This bill requires agencies to publish guidance documents on their websites when they are issued.
  2. 2Agencies must also publish all existing guidance documents within 180 days of this bill becoming law.
  3. 3All published guidance documents will be organized in a single location for easier access.
  4. 4The Director of the Office of Management and Budget must designate this website within 90 days of the bill's enactment.
  5. 5Certain documents that are exempt from disclosure will not be published under this bill.
Read the detailed summary

Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded. The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories.

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IntroducedCurrentJan 24, 2025

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

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The President

Donald Trump
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