S. 252 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
GOOD Act
Cosponsors: 15 (0 D, 15 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-14
Introduced: 2025-01-24
Latest action (2026-09-14): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
What S. 252 does, in plain terms
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded. The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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