Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
Legislative Progress
ReportedMrs. McClain introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to update federal information quality guidelines within one year, and then requires all federal agencies to update their own guidelines to ensure they use the best available evidence when developing regulations and guidance. Agencies must make the critical factual material underlying their rules publicly available in rulemaking dockets, provide public notice and comment opportunities on this material, and maintain mechanisms for the public to challenge inaccurate information.
Who Benefits and How
Regulated industries and businesses benefit from greater transparency into the data and evidence agencies use to justify new regulations, giving them more opportunity to challenge rules based on flawed information. Think tanks, advocacy groups, and researchers gain better access to underlying government data. The public benefits from more transparent and evidence-based rulemaking.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal agencies face new compliance burdens to document, publish, and justify the factual basis for all rulemakings and guidance. Agency staff must spend more time responding to information quality complaints. Rulemaking timelines may lengthen as agencies ensure full documentation and respond to challenges. Environmental and consumer protection agencies may face more legal challenges to their rules.
Key Provisions
- Requires OMB to update Information Quality Act guidelines within 1 year
- Agencies must publish critical factual material in rulemaking dockets as open government data
- Establishes mechanisms for public to seek correction of inaccurate influential information
- Requires notice and comment on critical factual material used in rulemakings
Evidence Chain:
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Primary Purpose
Strengthens federal information quality standards by requiring OMB to update Information Quality Act guidelines, mandating agencies publish critical factual material underlying rulemakings and guidance, and ensuring public mechanisms to challenge inaccurate influential information used in regulations.
Policy Domains
Legislative Strategy
"Strengthen regulatory accountability by requiring transparency in the factual basis for rules, potentially making it easier to challenge regulations based on questionable data"
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Has the meaning given in section 3561 of title 44, from the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
Information or evidence about which an agency can reasonably determine that reliance on or dissemination will have a clear and substantial impact on important public actions, policies or statements or on important private sector decisions
Section 515 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-554)
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