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The bill makes executive-branch design standards legally enforceable to promote more consistent, user-centered federal services, at the cost of higher compliance expenses and reduced administrative flexibility.
Federal agencies and their employees would be required to implement the design standards/principles from Executive Order 14388 as binding law rather than nonbinding guidance, creating a clear legal mandate for agency design and procurement decisions.
Taxpayers and the public could see more user-centered, consistently designed federal services because procurement and program design would follow clearer, legally enforceable standards.
Taxpayers and government contractors may face higher costs because agencies would incur new legal compliance obligations and contractors may need to change practices to meet statutory design requirements.
Federal agencies and employees would have reduced executive flexibility to modify or rescind design policy quickly, potentially locking in approaches that later prove impractical or costly.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Codifies the Executive Order on improving design into federal law, making its design policies binding statutory obligations for federal agencies.
Introduced December 16, 2025 by Erin Houchin · Last progress December 16, 2025
Makes the Executive Order on “improving our Nation through better design” into federal law by codifying its policies and requirements in statute. This turns the Executive Order’s design directives for federal agencies and programs into binding legal obligations rather than guidance from the executive branch.