[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 577 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 577

   To require each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to 
  include a link to a 100 word plain language summary of the proposed 
                                 rule.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 8, 2017

Mr. Lankford (for himself and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to 
  include a link to a 100 word plain language summary of the proposed 
                                 rule.

    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 ``Providing Accountability Through 
Transparency Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO POST A 100 WORD SUMMARY TO REGULATIONS.GOV.

    Section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2) by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) the Internet address of a summary of not more than 
        100 words in length of the proposed rule, in plain language, 
        that shall be posted on the Internet website under section 
        206(d) of the E-Government Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note) 
        (commonly known as regulations.gov).''.
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