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GOOD Act

Introduced: April 17, 2023 Introduced by: Johnson, Ron Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov

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Mar 14, 2023

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

Mar 14, 2023

Introduced in Senate

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access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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

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

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