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GOOD Act
A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act
This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.
The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Sep 14, 2026 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
- Sep 14, 2026 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- Aug 6, 2026 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Jan 24, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Jan 24, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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