119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 24, 2025
GOOD Act
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Latest action (Sep 14, 2026): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Jan 24, 2025)
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provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.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.
Includes amendment, cloture, and procedural votes. Each is labeled with its exact question; only a passage question is a vote to pass the bill.
No recorded roll calls on this bill in coverage.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
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CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM · lobbying firm or registrant: CENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
$20,000
Spent on own lobbying
S. 252 - Guidance Out of Darkness Act H.R. 1515 - Guidance Out of Darkness Act Correspondence with United States Senate urging passage of the legislation, which would…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
EARTHJUSTICE · lobbying firm or registrant: EARTHJUSTICE
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 20, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
$76,000
Spent on own lobbying
S.128 - SAVE Act H.R. 77/S.164 - HSGAC, Midnight Rules Relief Act H.R. 1515/S.252 - Guidance Out of Darkness (GOOD) Act S.1735 - Permitting Transparency and Accountability Act S. 4787 - FEAT Act S.114 - CLEAR Act S. 4787, the Free to Exit Ad…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION · lobbying firm or registrant: PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
2026 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026) · posted Oct 19, 2026 · issue area: Government Issues
Amount not reported
APA/Guidance Documents; H.R. 1515; S.252; FTC
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. View filing
AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I. · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I.
2026 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026) · posted May 27, 2026 · issue area: Insurance
$97,407
Spent on own lobbying
…er insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance, and for other purposes. (John Hickenlooper, D-CO) S.252 - A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. (Ron Johnson, R-WI) S.258 - A bill to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other ha…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I. · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I.
2025 Q4 report (Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025) · posted Feb 4, 2026 · issue area: Insurance
$12,851
Spent on own lobbying
…er insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance, and for other purposes. (John Hickenlooper, D-CO) S.252 - A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. (Ron Johnson, R-WI) S.258 - A bill to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other ha…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I. · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I.
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 27, 2025 · issue area: Insurance
$87,675
Spent on own lobbying
…er insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance, and for other purposes. (John Hickenlooper, D-CO) S.252 - A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. (Ron Johnson, R-WI) S.258 - A bill to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other ha…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT · lobbying firm or registrant: PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
2025 Q3 report (Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025) · posted Oct 20, 2025 · issue area: Government Issues
$20,000
Spent on own lobbying
…otecting Our Democracy Act (PODA) Supported Congress protecting data but detecting improper payments and spending Supported certain provisions in the GOOD Act (S. 252)
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I. · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I.
2025 Q2 report (Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025) · posted Sep 25, 2025 · issue area: Insurance
$40,138
Spent on own lobbying
…er insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance, and for other purposes. (John Hickenlooper, D-CO) S.252 - A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. (Ron Johnson, R-WI) S.258 - A bill to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other ha…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I. · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN FAMILY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, S.I.
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Jul 1, 2025 · issue area: Insurance
$86,159
Spent on own lobbying
…er insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance, and for other purposes. (John Hickenlooper, D-CO) S.252 - A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents. (Ron Johnson, R-WI) S.258 - A bill to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other ha…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number matches Congress.gov records and the bill predates the report; no title was cited with it. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS · lobbying firm or registrant: MASON CONSULTING, LLC
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 24, 2025 · issue area: Environment/Superfund
$24,000
Paid to lobbying firm
…Lead and Copper: Improvements (LCRI) H.R. 142, Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act S. 164/H.R. 77, Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025 S. 252/H.R. 1515, Guidance Out of Darkness (GOOD) Act S. 623/H.R. 1415, No IRIS Act of 2025
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION · lobbying firm or registrant: CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Government Issues
$200,000
Spent on own lobbying
…NY (REINS) ACT OF 2025; ALL PROVISIONS H.R. 1515: GUIDANCE OUT OF DARKNESS (GOOD) ACT; ALL PROVISIONS S. 164: MIDNIGHT RULES RELIEF ACT OF 2025; ALL PROVISIONS S. 252: GUIDANCE OUT OF DARKNESS (GOOD) ACT; ALL PROVISIONS STATEMENT ON POLICY CHANGE BY HHS THAT REQUIRED THE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENT PROCED…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing