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Introduced November 19, 2025 by Elizabeth Warren · Last progress November 19, 2025
This bill increases transparency, public access, equity consideration, and procedural speed in federal rulemaking but does so by tightening deadlines, expanding agency deference, centralizing review and disclosure requirements, and narrowing judicial checks—trading stronger, faster administrative action and greater visibility for risks of rushed rules, concentrated power, higher compliance costs, and reduced legal oversight.
Millions of members of the public (including historically underrepresented groups) gain clearer, easier, and more multilingual access to federal rulemaking through timely notices, push alerts, participation logs, accessible online dockets, published petition responses (for 100,000+ signers), and clearer rule texts.
The public and regulators get more transparent, documented evidence: funding, reviewer ties, and underlying studies used in rulemaking must be disclosed, and agencies can exclude nondisclosing submissions—improving the credibility of the record.
Rules must account for distributional and non-quantifiable benefits (social equity and disparate impacts), pushing agencies to consider effects on disadvantaged communities and to prioritize rules with broad public benefit.
The bill sharply limits judicial review and increases judicial deference to agency interpretations, reducing courts' ability to check agency overreach and weakening a major legal safeguard for the public.
Rigid, shortened deadlines (for agencies, OIRA review, and rule issuance) and expedited procedures risk rushed rulemakings, lower rule quality, delayed or weakened health/safety protections, and more litigation or compliance costs for businesses and governments.
New and expanded procedural and disclosure requirements (equity assessments, participation logs, study disclosures, change histories, notice obligations) will impose significant administrative burdens and costs on federal agencies, researchers, and regulated entities that may be passed to taxpayers or consumers.
Based on analysis of 19 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new Office of the Public Advocate at OMB, increases agency-friendly judicial rules, and rewrites many rulemaking procedures to require more disclosure, faster agency and OIRA timelines, and new public-participation tools. It forces agencies to publish who participates, disclose funding and conflicts for submitted studies, require social-equity analyses, and gives agencies new powers to exclude noncompliant submissions while also giving courts stronger deference to agency statutory interpretations. Adds a civil-penalty regime for certain corporate filers who knowingly submit materially false or misleading information in rulemaking submissions, sets a six-year deadline for many challenges to agency action, creates a one-year fast-track window to reinstate rules previously nullified under the Congressional Review Act, and changes negotiated-rulemaking and OIRA review processes to shorten review windows and require disclosure of changes made between OIRA drafts and public texts.