[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4113 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4113

To prohibit agencies from removing or altering public comments on their 
                               websites.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 14, 2023

 Mr. Donalds (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Grothman, and Mr. Burlison) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit agencies from removing or altering public comments on their 
                               websites.

    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 ``No Altering Public Comments Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION FROM DELETING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENCY WEBSITES.

    (a) Prohibition.--An agency may not remove or alter any public 
comment submitted to or published on the website of an agency unless 
such comment is threatening or harms national security.
    (b) Agency Defined.--In this section, the term ``agency'' has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code.
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