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H.R. 9342119th CongressIn markupLatest action Jun 24, 2026Decoded by AI · checked against the record
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The bill modernizes GPO law, moving federal document distribution from print toward digital while keeping some physical access.
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The bill updates decades-old laws governing GPO, shifting its focus from paper printing to managing digital government information. It renames the Joint Committee on Printing to the Joint Committee on Publishing, updates the Federal Depository Library Program to allow digital-only libraries, creates a National Collection of United States Public Information for long-term preservation, adds online privacy protections, and raises GPO's simplified purchasing threshold from $100,000 to $350,000. It also ends hardbound printing requirements for the Constitution Annotated and Congressional Directory, making them digital-only.
Affects GPO, Congress's Joint Committee on Printing/Publishing, roughly 1,100 federal depository libraries, researchers, and legal professionals who use government publications.
Some government documents previously available in print may become digital-only, which could affect people without reliable internet access, even though public access to the information itself is not being reduced.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.