Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024
The source supplies the latest action, but no lifecycle stage.
Latest action (17 Dec 2024): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 712.
What this bill does
This bill, known as the Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024, aims to improve how federal agencies handle public comments during the rulemaking process, specifically focusing on mass comments and computer-generated ones. Agencies would be required to attempt to verify if comments submitted electronically come from a human. They would also need to identify mass comments, which are a large volume of identical or very similar submissions. Instead of posting every single mass comment, agencies could display a single representative copy or a variation, while noting the total number of identical or substantively identical comments received.
The bill also mandates that each federal agency establish its own policy for how it will handle and consider computer-generated and mass comments. The Office of Management and Budget will issue guidance to agencies on how to implement these new requirements, including recommendations on using technology for verification and identification. The Government Accountability Office will be tasked with reporting on the identification and impact of computer-generated comments in the rulemaking process.
This legislation has passed the House of Representatives and will now move to the Senate for consideration. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, federal agencies will have specific timeframes to implement these new procedures and policies regarding public comments.
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Official summary
Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024
This bill establishes requirements with respect to the submission of mass comments and computer-generated comments in the federal rulemaking process.
Specifically, the bill requires federal agencies to verify, to the greatest extent possible at the time a public comment is submitted, whether the comment has been submitted by a human being.
An agency also must determine whether comments are mass comments and may publish on the docket only a single representative copy of such comments or a single copy of one variation of mass comments that use standardized but not identical language. If the agency publishes only a single copy of a mass comment, the agency also must indicate the number of mass comments submitted that were identical or substantively identical to the representative copy or variation that the agency published.
Additionally, each agency must establish a policy with respect to the posting and consideration of computer-generated comments and mass-comments during the agency's rulemaking process.
The Office of Management and Budget must issue guidance for implementing the requirements of this bill, and the Government Accountability Office must report on the identification and effect of computer-generated comments in the rulemaking process.
Timeline
17 Dec 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 712.
Common questions
- What does H.R. 7528 do?
- This bill, known as the Comment Integrity and Management Act of 2024, aims to improve how federal agencies handle public comments during the rulemaking process, specifically focusing on mass comments and computer-generated ones. Agencies would be required to attempt to verify if comments submitted electronically come from a human. They would also need to identify mass comments, which are a large volume of identical or very similar submissions. Instead of posting every single mass comment, agencies could display a single representative copy or a variation, while noting the total number of identical or substantively identical comments received. The bill also mandates that each federal agency establish its own policy for how it will handle and consider computer-generated and mass comments. The Office of Management and Budget will issue guidance to agencies on how to implement these new requirements, including recommendations on using technology for verification and identification. The Government Accountability Office will be tasked with reporting on the identification and impact of computer-generated comments in the rulemaking process. This legislation has passed the House of Representatives and will now move to the Senate for consideration. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, federal agencies will have specific timeframes to implement these new procedures and policies regarding public comments.
- Has H.R. 7528 become law?
- The source does not supply a confirmed lifecycle stage for H.R. 7528. Check the latest action and official source below.
- Who sponsored H.R. 7528?
- H.R. 7528 was sponsored by Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA), with 0 cosponsors.
- What's the latest action on H.R. 7528?
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 712. (17 Dec 2024).
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