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GOOD Act

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Passed Both
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Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-24
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James Comer
James Comer
Republican · KY · Representative
Votes with party: 96.3% (540 recorded votes)

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

2025-03-04

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Plain-English 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provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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. No later than five years after the enactment of this bill, the Government Accountability Office must report on agency compliance with these requirements.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Government Operations and Politics
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