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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on March 2, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Secret Science Reform Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing, finalizing, or disseminating a covered action unless all scientific and technical information relied on to support such action is the best available science, specifically identified, and publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent analysis and substantial reproduction of research results. A covered action includes a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment, criteria document, standard, limitation, regulation, regulatory impact analysis, or guidance. Scientific and technical information includes: (1) materials, data, and associated protocols necessary to understand, assess, and extend conclusions; (2) computer codes and models involved in the creation and analysis of the information; (3) recorded factual materials; and (4) detailed descriptions of how to access and use the information.
This Act may not be construed as requiring the EPA to disseminate scientific and technical information, or superseding any nondiscretionary statutory requirement.
The EPA may not spend more than $1 million per fiscal year on carrying out this Act.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1030 as passed House amended on Mar 18, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Mar 18, 2015Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 18, 2015
House Mar 18, 2015 · the primary vote
To prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or disseminating regulations or assessments based upon science that is not transparent or reproducible.
Passed
241 Yea 175 Nay 16 not voting
Party-line vote 5 of 416 voting members broke with their own party: 4 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1030 and vote against it. 21 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1030 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
162 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.