GOOD Act
- Last Action
- 3/25/2019
Actions
- 2019-03-25Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 43.
- 2019-03-25Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-12.
- 2019-03-25Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-12.
- 2019-02-13Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2019-02-07Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- 2019-02-07Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2019-03-25 (25)
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act
This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must (1) publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, (2) publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, (3) display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and (4) indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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 procedures
- Government information and archives
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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