H.R. 6329 — Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025

This section adds a new section 3522 to subchapter I of chapter 35, title 44, United States Code, to strengthen information quality assurance under the Information Quality Act (IQA). (As background, the IQA requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and federal agencies to issue guidelines maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information disseminated by agencies.) It directs the OMB Director, not later than one year after enactment, to (1) update OMB IQA guidelines to better ensure the quality of influential information or evidence (i.e., information central to agency rules or guidance disseminated to the public) used to develop, issue, or inform the public about such rules or guidance, consistent with current law including the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018; and (2) post the updated guidelines on the OMB website. Not later than one year after the OMB update, it requires each applicable agency head to (1) update agency IQA guidelines to rely on the best reasonably available, fit-for-purpose information for influential information; (2) post them on the agency website; (3) ensure correction mechanisms for noncompliant influential information used in rules or guidance; and (4) report on related complaints in annual IQA reports. It further directs the OMB Director, not later than one year after enactment, to issue guidance requiring agencies to disclose in rule dockets or guidance administrative records—absent exceptions—the critical factual material relied upon and citations to other sources (e.g., public comments), with notice and comment on such material where notice-and-comment rulemaking applies under 5 U.S.C. §553 or for proposed guidance; timely disclosure of material revisions; and explanations for any nondisclosure due to statutes (e.g., FOIA exemptions under 5 U.S.C. §§552, 552a), copyrights, patents, costs, or other prohibitions. (Thus, this enhances public access to evidentiary bases for regulations, subject to feasibility and legal limits.)