[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6514 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6514

  To require agencies to notify the Archivist of the date on which a 
 final rule is submitted to Congress and the Government Accountability 
                                Office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 30, 2023

 Mr. Alford (for himself, Mr. Meuser, and Mr. Finstad) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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 require agencies to notify the Archivist of the date on which a 
 final rule is submitted to Congress and the Government Accountability 
                                Office.

    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 ``Holding Agencies Accountable Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE DATE RULE IS SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS AND 
              GAO.

    (a) In General.--Upon submission of a final rule to Congress and 
the Government Accountability Office, the head of the agency shall 
notify the Archivist of the date of such submission. The Archivist 
shall include such date in the Document Details of the rule published 
in the Federal Register.
    (b) Agency and Rule Defined.--In this section, the terms ``agency'' 
and ``rule'' have the meaning given those terms in section 551 of title 
5, United States Code.

SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH CUTGO.

    No additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out this Act. Such Act shall be carried out using amounts otherwise 
appropriated to the head of the agency.
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