"Sunshine Act" redirects here. For the 2010 law on financial relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians, see Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
Government in the Sunshine Act
Long title
An Act to provide that meetings of Government agencies shall be open to the public, and for other purposes.
Enacted by
the 94th United States Congress
Effective
September 13, 1976
Citations
Public law
94-409
Statutes at Large
90 Stat. 1241
Codification
Acts amended
Administrative Procedure Act Freedom of Information Act
Titles amended
5 U.S.C.: Government Organization and Employees
U.S.C. sections created
5 U.S.C. ch. 5, subch. II § 552b
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 5 by Lawton Chiles (D–FL) on January 15, 1975
Committee consideration by Senate Government Operations, Senate Judiciary, Senate Rules and Administration, House Government Operations
Passed the Senate on November 6, 1975 (94–0)
Passed the House on July 28, 1976 (391–0, in lieu of H.R. 11656)
Reported by the joint conference committee on August 26, 1976; agreed to by the House on August 31, 1976 (384–0) and by the Senate on August 31, 1976 (agreed)
Signed into law by President Gerald Ford on September 13, 1976
Administrative law of the United States
General
Rulemaking
Notice of proposed rulemaking
Adjudication
Administrative law judge
Code of Federal Regulations
Federal Register
Statutory framework
Administrative Procedure Act
Freedom of Information Act
NEPA
GSA
NEA
IGA
RFA
PRA
UMRA
CRA
FVRA
Regulatory coordination
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Administrative Conference
Executive orders
Cost–benefit analysis (Executive Order 12866)
Judicial review of agency action
Arbitrary and capricious
State Farm
Chevron deference
Auer deference
Committed to agency discretion
Due process
Londoner
Bi-Metallic
Goldberg
Mathews
Exhaustion
Major questions doctrine
Nationwide injunction
Ripeness
Abbott Labs
Standing
Lujan
Separation of powers
Appointments Clause
Freytag
Noel Canning
Congressional oversight
Authorization
Organic statute
Appropriation
Hearings
Senate confirmation
Independent agencies
Humphrey's Executor
Seila Law
Unitary executive theory
Legislative veto
Chadha
Nondelegation
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FTC
CPSC
CFPB
Banking
Treasury
OCC
FDIC
FRB
Communication
FCC
Energy
DOE
FERC
Environment
EPA
FWS
Food
FDA
CDC
Health care
HHS
Immigration
DHS
EOIR
Labor
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NLRB
Patent/trademark
PTO
Securities
SEC
CFTC
Taxation
IRS
TC
Trade
DOC
ITC
Transportation
DOT
STB
NTSB
Social Security
SSA
Related topics
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Statutory interpretation
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