[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6222 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6222

    To amend title 5, United States Code, to require publication of 
information pertaining to the persons participating in the rule making, 
  and on the basis on which the rule is made, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2016

Mr. Young of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
  the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 5, United States Code, to require publication of 
information pertaining to the persons participating in the rule making, 
  and on the basis on which the rule is made, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Regulatory Fingerprints Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED PUBLICATIONS PERTAINING TO RULE MAKINGS.

    Section 553 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(f) For all publications in the Federal Register pertaining to 
the rule, the agency shall include in such publication--
            ``(1) the name and title of officer or employee of the 
        agency who participated in the rule making, and each person 
        performing any work pertaining to the rule making under the 
        terms of a contract with the agency; and
            ``(2) the specific legal authority that authorizes the 
        agency to make the rule.
    ``(g) Each person whose name and title is published pursuant to 
subsection (f)(1), shall, during the period in which the rule making 
was ongoing, file a report (which the agency shall make available 
online) of each transaction required to be reported by a person under 
section 103(l) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to the same 
extent and in the same manner as such a person.''.
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