Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
Plain Language Summary
# Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025 - Summary **What It Does:** This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to create stricter guidelines for how federal agencies use and share information when making important decisions. Specifically, it focuses on "influential information"—data or evidence that significantly impacts government policies, rules, or public guidance. The bill requires agencies to use the best available information for their purposes and to be transparent about what sources they relied on. **Key Requirements:** If passed, federal agencies would need to publicly disclose the key facts and sources they used when developing new rules or guidance. This transparency requirement applies to information that could substantially affect either government decisions or private business decisions.
The bill essentially aims to ensure federal agencies base their decisions on solid evidence and show their work to the public. **Current Status & Who It Affects:** The bill has already passed the House of Representatives and is sponsored by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI). It would affect all federal agencies and could influence how Americans interact with government regulations and policies. The bill doesn't appear to have advanced further in the Senate at this time based on the information provided.
CRS Official Summary
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025This 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.
Latest Action
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.