[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[S. 111 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.111

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty three


                                 An Act


 
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 2023''.
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).''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.