Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025

This bill adds a new section to title 44 of the U.S. Code requiring federal agencies to rely on quality information when they make rules and guidance. Within one year of enactment, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget must update the government-wide guidelines under the Information Quality Act to better ensure the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of influential information or evidence used to develop rules and guidance or to inform the public about them, and must post the updated guidelines online. Within a year after that, each covered agency must update and publish its own information-quality guidelines, keep available the mechanisms for the public to seek correction of flawed influential information, and report on complaints about accuracy. On public disclosure, the Director must issue guidance directing agencies to place in the rulemaking docket or administrative record the critical factual material the agency relied on, plus citations to other sources used. When an agency uses notice-and-comment rulemaking, it must give the public a chance to comment on that critical factual material. Agencies may withhold material that is protected from disclosure by other law, but must explain in the record why it cannot be released. Critical factual material is generally to be provided as an open government data asset. The bill authorizes no additional funds to carry it out.

At least 3 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 7 quarterly reports filed by 3 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organizations named: 60 Plus Association; Center for Individual Freedom; Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (Sbe Council). Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.