YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityThe outside panel that reviews how Congress keeps its records would end — a yearly report would take its place.
Transparency & Accountability
Each year the head of the Center for Legislative Archives would report on how the records were handled. Four committees and three officials would get it, and those three would then meet to review it.
An eleven-member panel now meets twice a year. It checks how Congress keeps its records, advises the National Archives, and holds six seats for outside experts.
More about this bill
An outside panel that reviews how Congress keeps its records would be shut down. The end would come 60 days after the bill becomes law. Today that panel has eleven members and meets twice a year. Six seats go to experts in history, archives, publishing, and library science. The panel advises Congress and the National Archives on saving those records. A yearly report would take its place. The head of the Center for Legislative Archives would report each year on how the records were handled. The first one would be due February 1 of the year after the law takes effect. It would go to four committees in Congress and to three officials. Those three would then meet to go over it. Most people would see no change in daily life. Researchers, historians, and reporters who use the records of Congress are the ones affected.
Congressional Summary
Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Sunset Act This bill eliminates the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress 60 days after the bill's enactment. Under the bill, the Center for Legislative Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) must provide an annual report on the management and preservation of the records of Congress during the previous year to NARA, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The Archivist, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives must regularly meet to review the management and preservation of the records of Congress.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Passed House
- Action Date
- 2026-09-14
- Date Added
- 2026-09-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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