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Introduced November 19, 2025 by Pramila Jayapal · Last progress November 19, 2025
The bill increases public participation, transparency, and agency flexibility to act faster and pursue equity objectives, but it does so by expanding agency power and procedural burdens that raise costs, risk rushed or politicized rulemaking, and reduce judicial checks on agency action.
Members of the public — including historically underrepresented communities — gain easier, clearer opportunities to participate in rulemaking through outreach, multi‑language materials, faster notifications, participation logs, and required petition responses.
Americans and regulated parties get much greater transparency about the evidence and drafting process for rules because agencies must disclose studies, funders/reviewers (above thresholds), draft changes, and detailed explanations when rules are withdrawn.
Federal rulemaking and review timelines become more predictable and often faster (strict agency deadlines, OIRA review caps, ability to republish certain previously disapproved rules), reducing regulatory delays for states, businesses, and the public.
Millions of Americans and businesses face reduced judicial oversight because the bill expands deference to agencies and limits how courts review agency interpretations, making it easier for agencies to adopt far‑reaching or costly regulations with less judicial check.
Taxpayers and federal agencies will incur substantial new administrative costs and staffing burdens (new offices, rapid notifications, logs, assessments, publication of studies, and disclosure requirements) increasing government spending and diverting agency resources.
Public companies, researchers, and small businesses face new compliance, disclosure, and penalty risks (attaching prior reports, naming funders/reviewers, and thresholds for conflicts), raising legal and administrative costs that may be passed to shareholders or consumers.
Based on analysis of 19 sections of legislative text.
Raises transparency and disclosure in rulemaking, expands judicial deference and timelines, creates an OMB Public Advocate, and penalizes false submissions by certain public companies.
Creates new transparency, disclosure, and timing rules for federal rulemaking, expands judicial deference to agency statutory interpretations, and sets new procedural duties for agencies and OMB review. It adds an Office of the Public Advocate in OMB to help the public participate in rulemaking, requires disclosure of funding and conflicts for studies submitted to agencies, imposes civil penalties on public companies that knowingly submit materially false rulemaking submissions, and sets firm timelines for OIRA review and several agency actions. Also changes court review of agency actions by adding a six-year statute of limitations for APA suits and directing courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, while requiring agencies to follow new notice, participation-log, petition-response, and social equity assessment practices during rulemaking.