YourVoice.Now Summary
Civil LibertiesTransparency & AccountabilityAgencies would check that online comments come from people — and could post one form letter in place of all its copies.
Civil Liberties
Agencies would have to check, as far as they can, whether a real person sent each comment filed online. The bill does not say what happens to a comment that fails the check.
Transparency & Accountability
Any public copy of an organized comment would carry a label saying it is part of a drive. The label has to be readable by both people and computers.
When an agency posts only one sample, it must state how many matching comments arrived. That number would sit on the copy the public sees.
Each agency would write its own rules on how it posts and weighs organized and AI-written comments. The rules are due within a year. They go on the agency's comment site 60 days later.
The Government Accountability Office is a watchdog that works for Congress. It would study how many comments are written by software, and what they do to rules. The report is due in two years.
The law now tells agencies to post the comments they receive. This bill would let an agency post one sample of an organized comment drive instead of every copy.
More about this bill
If you send a comment on a federal rule, agencies would have to check that a person, not software, sent it. Agencies would also mark comments that come from an organized drive. That means many people sending the same or nearly the same letter. Instead of posting every copy, an agency could post just one. It would have to say how many matching comments came in. The bill says nothing in it changes how agencies weigh those comments. It calls mass comments a vital part of the process. Each agency would write its own rules for handling them within a year. Those rules would then be posted online. Agency comment sites would be updated within 18 months. Regulations.gov would be updated as needed.
Congressional Summary
Comment Integrity and Management Act This bill establishes requirements with respect to the submission of mass comments and computer-generated comments in the federal rulemaking process. Specifically, the bill requires federal agencies to verify, to the greatest extent possible at the time a public comment is submitted, whether the comment has been submitted by a human being. An agency also must determine whether comments are mass comments and may publish on the docket only a single representative copy of such comments or a single copy of one variation of mass comments that use standardized but not identical language. If the agency publishes only a single copy of a mass comment, the agency also must indicate the number of mass comments submitted that were identical or substantively identical to the representative copy or variation that the agency published. Additionally, each agency must establish a policy with respect to the posting and consideration of computer-generated comments and mass-comments during the agency's rulemaking process. The Office of Management and Budget must issue guidance for implementing the requirements of the bill, and the Government Accountability Office must report on the identification and effect of computer-generated comments in the rulemaking process. Additionally, the General Services Administration must update regulations.gov and the eRulemaking system as necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements the bill.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-07-13
- Date Added
- 2026-09-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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