Comment Integrity and Management Act

The Comment Integrity and Management Act requires federal agencies to verify that electronic public comments are submitted by humans and to identify large volumes of identical submissions known as mass comments. Under this bill, agencies must label these mass comments clearly and may choose to display only a single representative sample of such submissions in public records, while still noting the total number of identical entries received. The legislation also mandates that agencies create specific policies for handling comments generated by computer software or artificial intelligence and requires the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance on how to implement these verification and management steps. Additionally, the bill directs the Government Accountability Office to submit a report two years after enactment analyzing the prevalence and impact of computer-generated comments on the rulemaking process.