H.R. 6329 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
Cosponsors: 1 (1 D, 0 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-09
Introduced: 2025-12-01
Latest action (2026-02-25): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
What H.R. 6329 does, in plain terms
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025 This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to revise the guidelines for federal agencies with respect to the dissemination or use of influential information or evidence, which means information or evidence about which an agency can reasonably determine that reliance on or dissemination of has, or will have, a clear and substantial impact on important public actions, policies or statements, or on important private sector decisions. The guidelines must ensure that federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available influential information and evidence that is appropriate for the purpose when developing, issuing, or informing the public about the rules and guidance of the agency. An agency also must publish (1) the critical factual material relied on as part of the rulemaking or guidance development process, and (2) a citation to any other source used to inform the rulemaking or guidance development process. The guidelines must also require an agency to provide certain opportunities for the public to comment on the critical factual material upon which the agency relied.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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Constitutionally sound
Graded 2026-10-09
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The bill is a valid exercise of Congress's power to prescribe procedures for federal agencies. It improves the quality and transparency of agency decision-making by requiring disclosure of the factual material underlying rules and guidance and by adding opportunities for public comment. It does not infringe individual rights, bypass due process, or shift power improperly to a higher level of government.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
Congress has authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers of the federal government. Setting standards for how federal agencies develop, use, and disclose influential information in rulemaking and guidance is a proper exercise of that authority and does not expand federal regulatory jurisdiction. -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
The bill imposes obligations on federal agencies, not restrictions on individuals. It does not regulate speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, search, self-incrimination, trial, jury, or punishment. Its public-comment requirement is consistent with the First Amendment and no provision of the Bill of Rights is infringed. -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
The bill does not restrict what any person can do with their own person, property, speech, labor, or belief. Instead, it strengthens individual and public sovereignty by requiring agencies to publish the factual material they rely on and to allow public comment on that material. The government bears no improper burden on individual freedom here. -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
This is a federal procedural requirement directed at federal agencies. An individual, family, local community, or state cannot set government-wide information-quality and disclosure standards for all federal agencies. The bill does not consolidate decision-making upward because the federal rulemaking process already exists at the federal level; it only makes that process more transparent and parti… -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property and does not take private property for public use. It enhances procedural fairness by requiring agencies to disclose critical factual materials and citations and by creating opportunities for public comment, which is consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Sources: Congress.gov: HR 6329 summary
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