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This bill would make it easier for small businesses to find government guidance about certain rules. It would require the Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman’s website to include links to relevant guidance or explanations when an agency publishes a small business compliance guide. The bill also says the website does not have to share information that is protected from public release. It would apply only to guidance for rules covered after the bill becomes law, and it would not authorize any new spending.
- The website would need to provide links to guidance that explains a rule’s policy, legal, or technical meaning, when possible.
- Any information that is exempt from public release under federal freedom of information rules would stay protected.
- The new website requirement would apply only to rules with small entity compliance guides issued on or after the date the bill takes effect.
- No extra money is authorized to carry out this change.
Official Summaries
Providing Opportunities to Show Transparency via Information Technology Act of 2025 or the POST IT Act of 2025
This bill requires the Small Business Administration's Office of the National Ombudsman to include hyperlinks on its website to any guidance that sets forth policy related to a rule covered by a small entity compliance guide.
Generally, agencies must prepare a small entity compliance guide for rules that are expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 822 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 822
To amend the Small Business Act to require the Small Business and
Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman to publish guidance
documents for certain rules, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 28, 2025
Mr. Van Drew (for himself and Ms. Scholten) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business
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A BILL
To amend the Small Business Act to require the Small Business and
Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman to publish guidance
documents for certain rules, and for other purposes.
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 Opportunities to Show
Transparency via Information Technology Act of 2025'' or the ``POST IT
Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF GUIDANCE ON OMBUDSMAN WEBSITE.
(a) Website Requirement.--Section 30 of the Small Business Act (15
U.S.C. 657) is amended--
(1) in subsection (e)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' at the
end;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ``; and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(3) to the extent practicable, hyperlinks for any
guidance that is designed to set forth policy on a statutory,
regulatory, or technical issue, or an interpretation of such
issue, for any rule for which an agency produces a small entity
compliance guide.''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(g) Protection of Confidential Information.--Subsection (e) does
not require the public availability of information that is exempt from
public disclosure under section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code
(commonly known as the `Freedom of Information Act').''.
(b) Applicability.--Paragraph (3) of section 30(e) of the Small
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657), as added by this section, shall apply
with respect to guidance on, or interpretation of, a rule for which an
agency produces a small entity compliance guide described under section
212(a)(1) of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of
1996 (5 U.S.C. 601 note) on or after the date of the enactment of this
Act.
SEC. 3. COMPLIANCE WITH CUTGO.
No additional amounts are authorized to be appropriated to carry
out this Act or the amendments made by this Act.
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