S 252 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

GOOD Act

Introduced Jan 24, 2025 Originated Senate Sponsor Ron Johnson R-WI

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 14, 2026 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJan 24, 2025
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act

This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.

The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories.

Cosponsors 15

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2025 to Nov 19, 2025, with 14 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-WYCynthia M. LummisOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-MOEric SchmittOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-IDJames E. RischOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-OKJames LankfordOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-NDJohn HoevenOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-IAJoni ErnstOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-NDKevin CramerOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-TNMarsha BlackburnOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-UTMike LeeOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-FLRick ScottOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-KSRoger MarshallOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-NCTed BuddOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-NCThom TillisOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-MTTim SheehyOriginalJan 24, 2025
R-PADavid McCormickNov 19, 2025

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 14, 2026Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  2. Sep 14, 2026Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
  3. Aug 6, 2026Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  4. Jan 24, 2025Introduced in Senate
  5. Jan 24, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
HR 890GOOD ActCross-Congress related billJul 23, 2024
HR 1515GOOD ActRelated billMar 4, 2025

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.

Text 2

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Sep 14, 2026Reported to Senate
  2. Jan 24, 2025Introduced in Senate

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