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The bill modernizes regulatory access and accelerates retrospective review using AI—improving efficiency, transparency, and oversight for many users—but requires agencies to adopt new technical formats and tools that create upfront costs, extra administrative burdens, and risks to accuracy and accountability if not properly managed.
Federal agencies, state and local governments, and government contractors will receive regulations in machine-readable formats, making it easier for them and the public to search rules and automate compliance checks.
Federal employees and government contractors will have standardized guidance to use AI and algorithmic tools to speed retrospective regulatory reviews, potentially reducing regulatory burdens and increasing efficiency.
Congress, the Office of Management and Budget, and taxpayers will get uniform agency plans and timelines, improving oversight, transparency, and accountability of post-issuance regulatory review.
Members of the public risk flawed or biased reviews if agencies use mandated algorithmic tools or AI without sufficient expertise, oversight, or safeguards, raising accuracy and accountability concerns.
Federal employees and agency staff will face increased administrative workload and compliance costs from new reporting and planning deadlines tied to the statute.
Taxpayers and agencies may incur upfront costs to convert regulations into machine-readable formats and to treat the eCFR as an official edition, imposing one-time implementation expenses on GPO, archives, and agencies.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires OIRA and related agencies to report on machine-readable regulations and eCFR, issue guidance on using technology/AI for retrospective review, and require agency plans and implementation.
Introduced February 20, 2025 by Mike Lee · Last progress February 20, 2025
Requires OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), working with the Government Publishing Office, the National Archives, and the Federal Register, to report within 180 days on how federal regulations are made available in machine-readable form and on recognizing the eCFR as an official legal edition. It also requires OIRA to issue guidance within 18 months on using technology (including algorithmic tools and AI) for retrospective regulatory review, and it requires each agency to submit a two-year implementation plan and then put that plan into effect within 180 days after submission.