H.R. 4809: GOOD Act
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H.R. 4809: GOOD Act
115th Congress · introduced 2018-01-16 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 586.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2018-01-16 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Walker, Mark [R-NC-6] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 586. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
- If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.
Official title
GOOD Act
Plain summary
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires an agency to: (1) publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, (2) publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on an online portal designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and (3) display a hyperlink on the agency's online portal that provides access to the guidance documents. The documents must be identified as guidance documents, sorted into subcategories, published in a machine-readable and open format, and searchable. On the date a guidance document is rescinded, an agency must add an indication on the online portal designated by OMB that the guidance document is rescinded and the date on which it was rescinded. OMB must designate an online portal within 30 days.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Walker, Mark [R-NC-6] · 4 cosponsors
Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 4809, GOOD Act (2018-04-12)
Cosponsors on this site
David Rouzer (R-NC)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr4809.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>
Record fed-us-cong115-hr4809 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115