Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each…
The ALERT Act requires federal agencies to submit monthly lists to OIRA of rules they expect to propose or finalize in the next 12 months, including summaries, legal bases, stage, cost estimates, and relevant scientific information.
OIRA must publish those submissions online within 30 days and produce an annual Federal Register and web summary of agency rulemaking, cost totals (without subtracting benefits), and related oversight information.
Most rules may not take effect until the required internet publication has been available for at least six months, with narrow exceptions for certain emergency, national security, criminal enforcement, trade, or claimed 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) exemptions.
Substantive oversight measures with broad administrative effects can clear one chamber but face resistance and procedural hurdles in the other.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-specified administrative/operational reform focused on increasing regulatory transparency through mandatory agency reporting and OIRA publication, with clear data elements, timelines, and exceptions.
Progressives emphasize delays and cost‑bias undermining protections
Progressives emphasize delays and cost‑bias undermining protections
Likely skeptical: welcomes increased disclosure of rulemaking and scientific information, but worries the law prioritizes cost figures and imposes multi‑month delays that hinder protective regulations.
Concerned the requirement to publish costs 'without reducing by benefits' biases public and lawmakers against regulation.
Worried about added administrative burden and political targeting of science-based rules.
Generally supportive of transparency and centralized reporting but cautious about unintended delays and administrative costs.
Sees value in public access to cost estimates and OIRA summaries, while worrying about rigid timing rules that could impede necessary or time-sensitive agency action.
Likely favorable: views the bill as increasing oversight, exposing regulatory costs, and creating delays that check executive regulatory action.
Appreciates mandatory publication of cost categories and total costs without offsetting benefits, seeing it as evidence-based constraint on regulatory expansion.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
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Substantive oversight measures with broad administrative effects can clear one chamber but face resistance and procedural hurdles in the other.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize delays and cost‑bias undermining protections
Substantive oversight measures with broad administrative effects can clear one chamber but face resistance and procedural hurdles in the ot…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-specified administrative/operational reform focused on increasing regulatory transparency through mandatory agency reporting and OIRA publication, with clea…
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