[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 522 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 522

   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 2 (legislative day, March 1), 2021

  Mr. Lankford (for himself, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Johnson) 
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 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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