H.R. 1515
GOOD Act
Sponsor: James Comer · 3 cosponsors
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Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
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provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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.
Text of the bill
On the date on which a guidance document issued by an agency is rescinded, or, in the case of a guidance document that is rescinded pursuant to a court order, not later than the date on which the order is entered, the agency shall, at the location described in section 4(a)—
(1) maintain the rescinded guidance document; and
(2) indicate—
(A) that the guidance document is rescinded;
(B) if the guidance document was rescinded pursuant to a court order, the case number of the case in which the order was entered; and
(C) the date on which the guidance document was rescinded.