Requires federal agencies to base rules and guidance on the best reasonably available evidence and to make the key factual material behind them available to the public.

• Directs the Office of Management and Budget to update its Information Quality Act guidelines within 1 year, covering influential information used in rules and guidance.
• Requires each agency to update its own guidelines within 1 year after that, publish them on its website, and handle complaints about inaccurate information.
• Requires agencies to place critical factual material and citations to other sources in the rulemaking docket or administrative record, with exceptions for information protected by law or intellectual property rights.
• Specifies that no additional funds are authorized to carry out the Act.

• Judiciary Committee (House)
• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)

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