[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 111 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 111

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 26, 2023

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