Sponsor
Mary E. Miller
Representative · R-IL
Representative · R-IL
The bill increases transparency, preservation, and inter-branch oversight of congressional records but does so at the cost of some legal-transition risks and recurring administrative time and expense.
All Americans (via their representatives and records) benefit from mandated annual reporting that makes how Congress manages and preserves its records more transparent to taxpayers and oversight bodies.
Historians, nonprofit watchdogs, and the public benefit from stronger preservation practices and regular reviews that reduce the risk of lost or poorly preserved congressional records.
Federal records managers and congressional offices gain clearer inter-branch oversight because the Archivist, Secretary, and Clerk are required to meet to review congressional records management practices, improving accountability.
Federal agencies and records offices may face legal ambiguity and transitional implementation costs from abolishing Chapter 27, creating administrative burdens during the statutory changeover.
Taxpayers and federal staff will incur recurring personnel time and possible financial costs to prepare annual reports and hold inter-branch meetings to comply with the new requirements.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Abolishes the statutory advisory committee chapter and requires annual Director reports and interofficial reviews of congressional records management.
Official title: To sunset the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by Mary E. Miller · Last progress June 18, 2026
Abolishes the existing statutory chapter creating the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress and replaces it with a new reporting-and-review regime for congressional records management. The Director of the Center for Legislative Archives must send an annual report on records management and preservation to the Archivist, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House, and certain congressional committees; those officials must meet soon after each report (and after initially assuming duties) to review records management.