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GOOD Act

119-S-252119th CongressIntroduced Jan 24, 2025Government Operations and Politics
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Status
Introduced
Committee
Floor Vote
Other Chamber
Signed
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.

Sponsor

Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI](R-WI)
15 cosponsors

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provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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.

Subjects

Administrative law and regulatory proceduresGovernment information and archives

Actions (6)

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
Sep 14, 2026Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Sep 14, 2026Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Sep 14, 2026Library of Congress
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Aug 6, 2026Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Jan 24, 2025Senate
Introduced in Senate
Jan 24, 2025Library of Congress