Accountability for Government Censorship Act
Sponsored By: Representative Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced
Summary
Mandatory agency reporting on federal contacts with online platforms about suppressing lawful speech. The bill would require each executive-branch agency to list every instance from the past five years where an officer or employee asked a platform to remove, label, restrict, or otherwise suppress lawful speech and to send those details to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget within 90 days, with OMB required to submit an unclassified, platform-organized report to Congress within 210 days.
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- Agency heads would have to provide a separate entry for every reported contact. Each entry must identify the sub-agency, staff involved and supervisors, name the platform and platform employees contacted, cite the legal authority or explain its absence, and summarize the purpose and outcome.
- Platforms and the specific platform employees who were contacted would be named in the unclassified OMB report, making those interactions visible to congressional committees.
- Inspectors General must review each agency's compliance and report to the same committees within 210 days, and any agency found noncompliant must brief those committees within 60 days of the Inspector General report.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Agency reports on platform contacts
This bill would require the head of every executive agency to send a report to the OMB Director within 90 days of enactment. Reports would cover the five years before enactment and list each time an agency employee contacted a non-federal platform to remove or limit lawful speech, add disclaimers or alerts, or block access. For each contact the agency would name the sub-agency and staff involved (with positions and direct supervisors), the platform and platform employees contacted, the legal authority relied on (or explain why none), a written justification, the outcome, and any other agencies involved. If no such contacts happened in the five-year period, the agency head would certify that fact. The bill would also define key terms used for coverage, including that "agency" includes offices in the Executive Office of the President and that "interactive computer service" uses the section 230(f) definition, and it would define "Director" as the OMB Director.
Congress receives platform contact reports
This bill would require the OMB Director to give Congress a report within 210 days of enactment that includes the agency submissions and a summary organized by the platform that received contacts. The Director could include a classified annex, but the listing of communications, the required descriptions, and the platform-organized summary would have to be unclassified. Each agency Inspector General would have to review the agency’s compliance and send a report to the same congressional committees within 210 days. If an Inspector General finds an agency noncompliant, that agency would brief the committees no later than 60 days after the committee gets the IG report.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
PA • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
FL • R
Sponsored 9/1/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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