Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
GOOD Act
Official title: A bill to increase access to agency guidance documents.
Sponsor: Sen. Ron Johnson R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 24, 2025
- Committee actionAug 6, 2026
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 14, 2026 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 565.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 252.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 252, Guidance Out Of Darkness Act” on September 3, 2026. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on August 6, 2026”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, September 3, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62751
- CBO publication date
- September 3, 2026
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 252, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/252
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 23, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of September 23, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
15 cosponsors — 15 Republicans
0 of 15 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Budd (R-NC), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Joni Ernst (R-IA), John Hoeven (R-ND), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), David McCormick (R-PA), James Risch (R-ID), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Sheehy (R-MT), Thomas Tillis (R-NC).
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Related bills
- H.R. 1515 (119th) GOOD ActRelated bill
- H.R. 890 (118th) GOOD ActCross-Congress related bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 24, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.