Legislation· Dec 2024Sponsored by Lisa C. McClain (R)
Information Quality Assurance Act
Would have required federal agencies to use the best available evidence and publish their data sources.
Tradeoff
Would have required agencies to publish the models and data behind their rules and guidance. Agencies could withhold material that a law makes confidential, if they explain why.
What's in it
Direct spending effects are estimated to be negligible; CBO estimates no effect on revenues and has not estimated effects on spending subject to .
The bill mainly requires OMB and agencies to update information-quality guidelines, and CBO found its direct cost to be negligible, so the policy's real effect falls on how agencies vet and publish information rather than on federal budgets.
The House passed this 377-4 on May 6, 2024. The Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended.
House
Introduced
(Feb 5, 2024)
House
Committee on Oversight and Accountability(Feb 5, 2024)
The bill went to more than one committee at the same time.
House
The Committee on Oversight and Accountability voted to send it to the floor
Reported 41 - 0(Feb 6, 2024)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-475, Part I.
House
On Motion to and Pass, as Amended
Passed(Roll #177 · May 6, 2024)
377 yeanay 4Senate
Received from the House
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs(May 7, 2024)
Senate
The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted to send it to the floor
Reported(Sep 18, 2024)
Committee report S. Rept. 118-284.
- Katie Porter (D-CA)
Passage votes· May 6, 2024· 118th Congress · 2023–2025