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The bill increases transparency by forcing agencies to publish evidence, guidance, and—when allowed—open data to support rulemaking, but it does so without new funding and raises privacy and implementation-capacity risks that could burden agencies and affected individuals.
Members of the public (taxpayers, nonprofits) gain access to the factual material and citations agencies relied on for rulemaking because agencies must docket those materials, enabling independent review and public scrutiny of regulatory evidence.
Researchers, nonprofits, and oversight bodies benefit from improved transparency and re-use because agencies must post updated Information Quality guidelines and, where legally permitted, make critical factual material available as open government data.
Federal agencies must implement these new posting and docketing requirements without additional funding, likely straining staff time and resources and potentially diverting effort from other agency priorities.
Making more underlying data public could expose sensitive personal, confidential, or proprietary information if redaction/exemptions are inadequate, posing privacy and competitive-risk harms to affected individuals and organizations.
Smaller agencies or offices with limited IT and data-management capacity may face difficulty converting materials into open-data formats, causing delays, higher compliance costs, and uneven access across agencies and local governments.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and federal agencies to strengthen and publish information-quality guidance and to disclose the key factual material and citations underlying influential information used in rulemaking and guidance. OMB must update its guidelines within one year of enactment; agencies must update their own rules within one year after OMB’s update and provide administrative correction mechanisms and public docketing of critical evidence, subject to legal exceptions and cost feasibility, without new appropriations.
Introduced December 1, 2025 by Lisa C. McClain · Last progress February 25, 2026