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The bill increases transparency and public access to the evidence behind agency rules and creates correction pathways, but does so without new funding and with added procedural requirements that may raise costs, slow rulemaking, and pose privacy or proprietary disclosure challenges.
Taxpayers, state and local governments, and the general public will see clearer agency evidence practices because agencies must publish updated information‑quality guidelines within 1 year, increasing transparency about the evidence behind rules and guidance.
Taxpayers, nonprofits, and other stakeholders will have direct access to the factual material and citations agencies rely on because agencies must place critical supporting evidence in rulemaking dockets or administrative records, enabling public review and challenge.
Researchers, businesses, and nonprofits will gain improved access to government data when agencies publish critical factual material as open government data where feasible, supporting analysis, innovation, and private‑sector use of public information.
Federal agencies and taxpayers may face higher compliance and administrative costs because agencies must prepare, publish, and maintain expanded records and open‑data assets without new appropriations.
Agencies' ability to implement these requirements may be constrained because the bill prohibits additional appropriations, potentially forcing resource diversion from other programs or leaving requirements underfunded.
Rulemaking and guidance issuance could be slowed because tighter definitions of 'influential information' and added procedural steps (including notice-and-comment on cited material) add time and complexity to the regulatory process.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires OMB and federal agencies to update information-quality guidelines, publish correction processes, and post key factual materials and citations for rulemakings and guidance.
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to update federal information-quality guidance within one year and requires each federal agency to update its own information-quality guidelines within one year after OMB’s update. Agencies must publish the guidelines and maintain accessible correction and complaint processes. The bill directs OMB to require agencies to place critical factual material and supporting citations used in rulemakings and guidance into rulemaking dockets or administrative records, with procedures for notice-and-comment handling, timely posting of revisions, legal exceptions for protected information, and open-data formatting where allowed and cost-permitting. It defines key terms and does not provide new funding.
Introduced December 1, 2025 by Lisa C. McClain · Last progress February 25, 2026