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Introduced November 19, 2025 by Pramila Jayapal · Last progress November 19, 2025
The bill greatly increases transparency, outreach, equity consideration, and procedural predictability in federal rulemaking — but at the cost of bigger administrative burdens, potential chilling of participation and research, faster yet riskier deadlines, and stronger judicial deference that may reduce oversight and invite litigation.
All Americans (taxpayers, nonprofits, regulated parties) gain much greater transparency about rulemaking because agencies must publish participation logs, petitions/dockets, study materials and funding disclosures, explain draft-to-final changes and rule withdrawals, and provide timelier notifications.
Underrepresented communities (Tribal, local, low-income, racial/ethnic minority groups) get targeted outreach, multilingual materials, and required social‑equity assessments, increasing opportunities for meaningful participation and consideration of distributional effects in rulemaking.
Businesses, agencies, and the public gain greater predictability and speed in the regulatory process because the bill sets statutory deadlines (one‑year rule timelines, OIRA review time limits, six‑year filing limits for challenges) and permits faster publication when reviewers miss deadlines.
Americans may see reduced judicial checks on agencies because several provisions increase judicial deference to agency statutory interpretations and discourage invalidating rules for lack of prior similar actions, potentially expanding unchecked executive regulatory power.
Many stakeholders (parents, teachers, patients, small organizations, commenters) could lose or see reduced avenues for meaningful participation because agencies gain powers to exclude certain submissions, negotiated rulemaking narrows to government reps, and agencies can republish rules without notice‑and‑comment for up to a year.
Agencies, researchers, and taxpayers face substantial new administrative and compliance costs because the bill requires participation logs, rapid notifications, social equity assessments, posting and vetting of studies, disclosure work, and explanations of changes/withdrawals.
Based on analysis of 19 sections of legislative text.
Overhauls federal rulemaking: creates an OMB Public Advocate, tightens OIRA timing, expands disclosure and equity requirements, limits negotiated rulemaking participants, and penalizes false corporate filings.
Changes how federal rulemaking works by strengthening agency deference in court, creating a new Office of the Public Advocate at OMB to boost public participation and social‑equity review, enforcing faster OIRA review timelines, and adding new disclosure and public‑access rules for studies and comments. It also creates a six‑year statute of limitations for judicial review, allows agencies to reinstate rules previously nullified by Congressional disapproval in a limited window, and imposes civil penalties on public companies that knowingly file materially false or misleading submissions to federal rulemakings.