Learn About GovInfo's Congressionally Mandated Reports Collection

In December 2023, the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection launched on GovInfo. GPO fulfilled its responsibility to make these reports publicly-available ahead of its one-year implementation deadline set by Congress. This marks the first time congressionally mandated reports have been accessible to the public in a single location. 

Congressionally mandated reports are defined as those reports that are required by statute to be submitted by Federal agencies to the Senate, the House of Representatives, or to congressional committees or subcommittees. Agencies must now also submit these reports electronically to the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) after first submitting to Congress, committees, or subcommittees as they do currently. Not all congressionally mandated reports are required to be submitted to GPO for publication. The congressionally mandated reports in GovInfo are those that are in scope of Public Law 117-263, the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, sections 7241-7248, cited as the “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act.”

New webcasts on GovInfo’s Congressional Mandated Reports collection, which are now available for viewing, guide users in searching and browsing the collection. They are presented by Keith Wade, Management & Program Analyst, Library Services & Content Management, U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)

• Available Webcasts: 
• Basic Search (5 minutes, 43 seconds)
• Advanced Search (6 minutes, 10 seconds)
• Browse by Topic (3 minutes, 44 seconds)
• Browse by Agency (3 minutes, 59 seconds) 
• Table of Reports (3 minutes, 26 seconds)
  

Other GovInfo tutorials on a variety of  topics and collections are also available.