[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1507 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1507

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2021

 Mr. Luetkemeyer (for himself and Mr. Golden) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require each agency, in providing notice of a rulemaking, 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 2021''.

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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