Pipeline · Bill → Law
Step 1
Introduced
Mar 5, 2024
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Referred
Mar 5, 2024
Oversight · Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Committee
Mar 7, 2024
Reported out
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House floor
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Senate
Dec 17, 2024
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary
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 mas...
Timeline · 13 actions
Dec 17, 2024
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-306.
Dec 17, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 712.
Nov 20, 2024
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
May 7, 2024
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
May 6, 2024
Mr. LaTurner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
May 6, 2024
Considered under suspension of the rules.
May 6, 2024
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 7528.
May 6, 2024
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
May 6, 2024
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mar 7, 2024
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Mar 7, 2024
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 31 - 9.
Mar 5, 2024
Introduced in House
Mar 5, 2024
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.