# H.R. 6329 (119th): Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025

Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025 This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to revise the guidelines for federal agencies with respect to the dissemination or use of influential information or evidence , which means information or evidence about which an agency can reasonably determine that reliance on or dissemination of has, or will have, a clear and substantial impact on important public actions, policies or statements, or on important private sector decisions. The guidelines must ensure that federal agencies rely on the best reasonably available influential information and evidence that is appropriate for the purpose when developing, issuing, or informing the public about the rules and guidance of the agency. An agency also must publish (1) the critical factual material relied on as part of the rulemaking or guidance development process, and (2) a citation to any other source used to inform the rulemaking or guidance development process. The guidelines must also require an agency to provide certain opportunities for the public to comment on the critical factual material upon which the agency relied.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: administrative_transparency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: agency_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: evidence_quality. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: government_accountability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: government_transparency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: information_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: information_standards. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: transparency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 71: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a real good, transparency and evidentiary accountability in agency rulemaking and public comment on the factual basis of rules, with ordinary prudential governance mechanics. It does not directly restrain a named evil or directly advance a named moral harm. The summary is sufficient for a prudent high-level classification, so 'unclear' is not warranted.
Theological note: The measure concerns truthfulness and honest reasoning in government. Scripture values truthful speech and just weights, and general equity supports public accountability for the factual basis of binding rules. The bill's core aim is procedural transparency about evidence, not the restraint or advancement of a named moral harm, so its relevance to Christian ethics is prudential and bounded.

## Recorded votes

Roll 71: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 362 · Nay 1 · Other 69.

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