Search Results: keywords:"online publication"

  • S. 3664 — To require executive branch employees to report certain royalties, and for other purposes.
    Status:Reported to Senate
    Words:3,756

    S. 3664, titled the "Royalty Transparency Act," is a legislative bill requiring executive branch employees to disclose royalties they receive from inventions developed during their government employment. It mandates that these disclosures, including those related to...

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    This bill, called the "Royalty Transparency Act," wants people who work for the government to tell everyone if they get money from special ideas they created at work, and this information will be shared online. It's like when you invent something cool at school, and you must let the teacher know, so all your friends can see too!

  • H. R. 890 — An Act To increase access to agency guidance documents.
    Status:Engrossed in House
    Words:1,119

    The "Guidance Out Of Darkness Act" (GOOD Act) aims to improve public access to government agency guidance documents by requiring them to be published online in one centralized location. The bill mandates that both newly issued and previously existing guidance documents be...

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    The Guidance Out Of Darkness Act wants to make it easy for everyone to find important information from government agencies by putting all their instructions and advice online in one place. It makes sure that all the new and old instructions are there, unless they are secret for special reasons.

  • S. 2685 — An Act To make data and internal guidance on excess personal property publicly available, and for other purposes.
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    Status:Enrolled Bill
    Words:975

    S. 2685, known as the “Reuse Excess Property Act”, requires that data and internal guidance concerning excess personal property be made publicly available. It amends U.S. Code to mandate that reports on this property be compiled by the General Services Administration and...

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    The Reuse Excess Property Act wants to make sure everyone can see and understand how the government deals with extra stuff it no longer needs by posting this information online without spending extra money. It also asks the government to keep track of stuff bought from China, but the rules are only for five years.

  • H. R. 187 — To provide for the standardization, consolidation, and publication of data relating to public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways among Federal land and water management agencies, and for other purposes.
    Status:Introduced in House
    Words:1,896

    H.R. 187, also known as the "Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025" or the "MAPWaters Act of 2025", is a bill aimed at improving how data about public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways is standardized, consolidated, and shared among federal agencies....

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    The MAPWaters Act of 2025 wants to make it easier for everyone to find information online about where they can enjoy fun activities like fishing on big rivers or lakes run by the government. It plans to make all this information from different agencies work together and be clear, while also keeping in mind the protection of special places like old ruins.

  • H. R. 1515 — An Act To increase access to agency guidance documents.
    Status:Engrossed in House
    Words:1,120

    H.R. 1515, known as the “Guidance Out Of Darkness Act” or the “GOOD Act,” aims to make agency guidance documents more accessible to the public. Under this Act, all federal agencies are required to publish their guidance documents online in a single, easily accessible...

    Simple Explanation

    The "GOOD Act" is a new rule that says all the important instruction papers from government agencies must be put online so that everyone can see them, except those that are meant to be secret.

  • S. 252 — To increase access to agency guidance documents.
    Status:Introduced in Senate
    Words:1,066

    S. 252, titled the "Guidance Out Of Darkness Act" or "GOOD Act," aims to increase public access to agency guidance documents. The bill mandates that federal agencies must publish their guidance documents online, both newly issued ones and those already existing, in a single,...

    Simple Explanation

    The "Guidance Out Of Darkness Act" is a set of rules that makes sure all the important papers that help explain what government agencies do are easy to find on the internet. This helps everyone stay informed, except if the papers are secret.

  • H. R. 890 — To increase access to agency guidance documents.
    Status:Reported in House
    Words:1,222

    H.R. 890, known as the "Guidance Out of Darkness Act of 2023" or the "GOOD Act of 2023," aims to make agency guidance documents more accessible to the public. The bill requires that all new and existing guidance documents be published on a single, publicly accessible website...

    Simple Explanation

    The GOOD Act of 2023 wants all important papers from government agencies to be easy for everyone to find on one website, even if they've been canceled, so people can see them and know what's going on.

  • H. R. 1515 — To increase access to agency guidance documents.
    Status:Introduced in House
    Words:1,136

    H.R. 1515, known as the “Guidance Out Of Darkness Act” or the “GOOD Act,” sets rules for federal agencies to make their guidance documents more accessible to the public. It requires these documents, which offer guidance or interpretation of laws but do not have the force of...

    Simple Explanation

    The bill wants to make it easy for people to find and read the instructions and rules that different government agencies create. It says these instructions should all be put online in one place, like a big guidebook on the internet.

  • H. R. 7592 — An Act To direct the Librarian of Congress to promote the more cost-effective, efficient, and expanded availability of the Annotated Constitution and pocket-part supplements by replacing the hardbound versions with digital versions.
    Status:Engrossed in House
    Words:746

    H.R. 7592 requires that the Librarian of Congress replace printed versions of the Annotated Constitution and its supplements with digital versions. This change aims to make these documents more accessible and cost-effective by publishing them on a public website of the Library of Congress....

    Simple Explanation

    The bill says that instead of printing the U.S. Constitution with notes and supplements in books, they will be put online on a library website to save money. This makes it easier for people to read them anywhere on the internet.