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The bill increases transparency and predictability of federal rulemaking for taxpayers, businesses, and governments but does so at the cost of higher administrative burden—especially for smaller agencies—and greater exposure of internal analyses that could invite legal challenges.
Taxpayers, state governments, and other stakeholders will get monthly publications of proposed and final rule information with standardized deadlines, improving transparency and making regulatory activity more predictable and easier to track.
Researchers, businesses, and taxpayers will have access to OIRA's publication of cost/benefit analyses from the prior 10 years, enabling historical review of regulatory impacts and better-informed planning or research.
Federal agencies—and especially smaller or resource-constrained agencies—will need to divert staff time and funds to monthly reporting and preparing archival analyses, increasing administrative costs and potentially diverting resources from program delivery.
Publishing internal cost/benefit analyses could expose deliberative information and lead to increased legal challenges or scrutiny of past analyses, creating compliance and litigation risks for agencies and employees.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires OIRA and federal agencies to produce monthly reports and a periodic cumulative assessment with retrospective cost/benefit analyses for economically significant rules.
Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the publication, by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, of information relating to rules, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 17, 2025 by Gary James Palmer · Last progress April 17, 2025
Requires federal agencies and OIRA to publish regular, public information about economically significant regulations and retrospective cost/benefit assessments. It creates a new chapter in Title 5 directing monthly agency submissions, periodic cumulative assessments covering the prior 10 years, and a phased schedule for when each publication requirement takes effect.