3.0.0 252 2026-09-03T20:50:22Z 2026-09-03T20:50:22Z Senate S S 2025-01-24 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/252 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Markup By 2026-08-06T13:32:21Z Referred To 2025-01-24T20:21:29Z GOOD Act 119 1515 HR 2025-03-04 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS 2026-08-06 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2025-01-24 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2025-01-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress J000293 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] Ron Johnson R WI N C001096 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] Kevin Cramer R ND 2025-01-24 True E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA 2025-01-24 True L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2025-01-24 True T000476 Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] Thomas Tillis R NC Roland 2025-01-24 True B001243 Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] Marsha Blackburn R TN 2025-01-24 True B001305 Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] Ted Budd R NC 2025-01-24 True S001227 Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO] Eric Schmitt R MO S. 2025-01-24 True M001198 Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] Roger Marshall R KS 2025-01-24 True S001232 Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] Tim Sheehy R MT 2025-01-24 True L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT 2025-01-24 True L000571 Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] Cynthia Lummis R WY M. 2025-01-24 True S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL 2025-01-24 True H001061 Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND] John Hoeven R ND 2025-01-24 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2025-01-24 True M001243 Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA] David McCormick R PA H. 2025-11-19 False 2026-09-03T20:40:00Z S. 252, Guidance Out Of Darkness Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62751 As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on August 6, 2026 Government Operations and Politics Administrative law and regulatory procedures 2025-06-13T18:08:32Z Government information and archives 2025-06-13T18:08:36Z Government Operations and Politics 2025-05-01T21:10:00Z 00 2025-01-24 Introduced in Senate 2025-05-23T14:39:08Z 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.

]]> GOOD Act Display Title 45 GOOD Act 2026-08-08T15:33:21Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 GOOD Act 2025-02-25T05:08:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Guidance Out Of Darkness Act 2025-02-25T05:08:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. 2025-02-25T05:03:27Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-01-24T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s252is/xml/BILLS-119s252is.xml 2026-08-06 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.