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Below are links to proposed legislation related to public access policy in the United States. These sources are organized according to government branch.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Holdren memo, 22 February 2013
  • Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research
• Nelson memo, 25 August 2022
  • Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
  • Economic Landscape of Federal Public Access Policy
• Federal Register requests for public comments
  • Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research (23 December 2011)
  • Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research (19 February 2020)

Legislature

• FRPAA
  • S. 2695 (109th Congress, 2006)
  • H.R. 5037 (111th Congress, 2009)
  • H.R. 5253 (111th Congress, 2009)
  • S. 1373 (111th Congress, 2009)
  • H.R. 4004 (112th Congress, 2012)
  • S. 2096 (112th Congress, 2012)
• America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
  • Public Law 111-358 (2010)
  • Interagency Public Access Coordination: A Report to Congress on the Coordination of Policies Related to the Dissemination and Long-term Stewardship of the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research
• Research Works Act, H.R. 3699 (112th Congress, 2011)
• FASTR
  • S. 350 (113th Congress, 2013)
  • H.R. 708(113th Congress, 2013)
  • S. 779 (114th Congress, 2015)
  • H.R. 1477 (114th Congress, 2015)
  • S. 1701 (115th Congress, 2017)
  • H.R. 3427 (115th Congress, 2017)
• PAPS (Public Access to Public Science) Act, H.R. 3157 (113th Congress, 2013)
• BASIC Research Act, S. 1973 (115th Congress, 2017)