S. 111
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty three
An Act
To require each agency, in providing notice of a rulemaking, to include a link
to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed rule.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Providing Accountability Through
Transparency Act of 2023’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO POST A 100-WORD SUMMARY TO REGULA-
TIONS.GOV.
Section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
‘‘(4) the Internet address of a summary of not more than
100 words in length of the proposed rule, in plain language,
that shall be posted on the Internet website under section
206(d) of the E-Government Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note)
(commonly known as regulations.gov).’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.