{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-6329","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 6329","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To ensure that Federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, and statistical information and evidence to develop, issue or inform the public of the nature and bases of Federal agency rules and guidance, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To ensure that Federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available scientific, technical, demographic, economic, and statistical information and evidence to develop, issue or inform the public of the nature and bases of Federal agency rules and guidance, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed 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Act","result":"Passed","yea":362,"nay":1,"present":0,"not_voting":69,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/roll071.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2026-02-25"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-12-01","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025"},{"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 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."},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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."}],"words":176},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Director to update guidelines under the Information Quality Act, and requires Federal agencies to update their own guidelines and to make available the critical factual material behind their rules and guidance.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}]},"core_areas":["Information Quality Act guidelines for influential information or evidence","Agency reliance on the best reasonably available information in rules and guidance","Public disclosure of critical factual material in rulemaking dockets and administrative records","Public notice and comment on critical factual material"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Director, within 1 year of enactment, to update the Information Quality Act guidelines on influential information or evidence used for rules and guidance, and to post them on the website of the Office of Management and Budget.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}},{"text":"Requires each agency head, within 1 year after the Director updates the guidelines, to update agency guidelines so the best reasonably available fit-for-purpose information is relied on for influential information, and to publish them on the agency website.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}},{"text":"Requires agencies to make their existing correction mechanisms available for influential information or evidence that does not comply with the guidelines, and to include related complaints in the report required under the Information Quality Act.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}},{"text":"Requires the Director to issue guidance directing agencies to place the critical factual material relied on, and citations to other sources used, in the rulemaking docket or public administrative record at or before the time a rule or guidance is issued.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}},{"text":"Directs agencies that use notice and comment rulemaking, or that invite comment on proposed guidance, to give notice and an opportunity to comment on the critical factual material relied on.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}},{"text":"Requires an agency that does not make critical factual material available to include in the docket or record an explanation of why, and a description of any steps being taken to increase access to the information.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh#HE77847B1890348289DC94C1DDC316304"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2026-02-24","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-03","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6329/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-6329.png","v":"0ccb79fc313e","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 6329, 119th Congress: Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025. House: 362 Yea, 1 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 24 Feb 2026."}}