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Calendar No. 687.","date":"2024-12-09"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-05-06","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Information Quality Assurance Act"},{"k":"p","t":"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 includes scientific, technical, demographic, economic, financial, and statistical information or evidence that has (or reasonably will have) a clear or substantial impact in developing, issuing, or informing the public about a rule or guidance of the agency."},{"k":"p","t":"The guidelines must ensure that federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available influential information and evidence in developing, issuing, or informing the public about the rules and guidance of the agency."},{"k":"p","t":"An agency also must publish any model, methodology, or source of scientific or technical information relied on in issuing or developing any rule or guidance."}],"words":127},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and each Federal agency to update information quality guidelines for influential information or evidence used in rules and guidance, and requires agencies to make public the models, methodologies and sources they rely on.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}]},"core_areas":["Information quality guidelines for influential information or evidence used in agency rules and guidance","Public disclosure of models, methodologies and sources in rulemaking dockets and guidance records","Correction mechanisms and complaint reporting under the Information Quality Act"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, within 1 year after enactment, to update the Information Quality Act guidelines on the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity of influential information or evidence, and to post them on the Office's website.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}},{"text":"Requires each agency head, within 1 year after the Director updates the guidelines, to update the agency's own guidelines so that the best reasonably available information and evidence is relied on, and to publish them on the agency's website.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}},{"text":"Requires agencies to make their existing correction mechanisms available for influential information that does not comply with the guidelines, and to include complaints about the accuracy of such information in their Information Quality Act report.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}},{"text":"Requires an agency head to place in the rulemaking docket or guidance administrative record, before the rule or guidance is issued, each model, methodology or source relied on or proposed to be relied on, and to identify whether it is or may be influential information or evidence.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}},{"text":"Bars an agency from making public any information that a statute prohibits disclosing, and requires an explanation citing the applicable law and policy, plus a description of steps to increase access, when a model, methodology or source is withheld.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}},{"text":"Requires each agency to make the models, methodologies and sources it must disclose available as an open Government data asset.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh#H3F0BB2995BCB4847A219662E856F79E8"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-06","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7219/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-7219.png","v":"5c5d306ed510","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 7219, 118th Congress: Information Quality Assurance Act. House: 377 Yea, 4 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 6 May 2024."}}