Paperwork Reduction Act

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980
Long title	An Act to reduce paperwork and enhance the economy and efficiency of the Government and the private sector by improving Federal information policymaking, and for other purposes.
Enacted by	the 96th United States Congress
Effective	December 11, 1980
Citations
Public law	96–511
Statutes at Large	94 Stat. 2812
Codification
Titles amended	44 U.S.C.: Public Printing and Documents
U.S.C. sections amended	44 U.S.C. ch. 1 § 101; 44 U.S.C. ch. 35, subch. I § 3501 et seq.;
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 6410 by Jack Brooks (D–TX) and Frank Horton (R–NY) on February 5, 1980; Committee consideration by Committee on Government Operations; Passed the House on March 24, 1980 (328-13); Passed the Senate on November 19, 1980 (Unanimous) with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on December 1, 1980 (Voice vote); Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 11, 1980;
Major amendments
	Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
United States Supreme Court cases
	Dole v. United Steelworkers of America

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (Pub. L. No. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812, codified at 44 U.S.C. §§ 3501–3521) is a United States federal law enacted in 1980 designed to reduce the total amount of paperwork burden the federal government imposes on private businesses and citizens. The Act imposes procedural requirements on agencies that wish to collect information from the public. It also established the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and authorized this new agency to oversee federal agencies' collection of information from the public and to establish information policies. A substantial amendment, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, confirmed that OIRA's authority extended over not only agency orders to provide information to the government, but also agency orders to provide information to the public.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.