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Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act

418

119th Congress

Government Operations and Politics

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

January 15, 2025

Latest Action

January 15, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Ben ClineRepublican(VA)

Momentum (last 30 days)

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Summary

Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act This bill requires, subject to a limited exception, that any agency rule promulgated under notice and comment procedures must be (1) initiated by a senior appointee (e.g., an individual who was appointed by the President or is a non-career member of the Senior Executive Service), and (2) issued and signed by an individual who was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs must issue guidance for agencies to implement this requirement.

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Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets

HR 1049 "Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education (TRACE) Act," all provisions. HR 418 "Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act," all provisions. HR 5571 "Fair-Value Budgeting Act," all provisions. HR 697 "End the Deep State Act," all provisions. HR 77 "Midnight Rules Relief Act," all provisions. HR 991 "Cost Estimates Improvement Act," all provisions. HR2378 "Defining Male and Female Act," all provisions. HR274 "Sunset Chevron Act," all provisions. HR377 "The Regulation Reduction Act," all provisions. HR519 "Federal Subaward Reporting System Modernization and Expansion Act," all provisions. S 181 "A bill to require agencies submit zero-based budgets," all provisions. S 440 "Repeal DC Home Rule," all provisions. S 485 "REINS Act," all provisions. S 583 "Reorganizing Government Act of 2025," all provisions. Issues pertaining to the "Avoid Bureaucrat Control Act" (no bill number), all provisions. Issues pertaining to the "Nickel Plan Act" (no bill number), all provisions. Issues pertaining to the "BRIDLE Act" (no bill number), all provisions. Issues pertaining to the nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.