# Shelby Amendment signed into law October 1998 requiring public grantee data access

Congress enacted Public Law 105–277 that month, establishing public access rules for grantee produced data.

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In October 1998, Congress passed and the president signed Public Law 105–277, known as the Shelby Amendment.[^1]

The measure requires grantees to make data resulting in published reports or cited in federal rules available to the public.

## What this stands on

1. On October 1998, Congress passed and the president signed Public Law 105–277, known as the Shelby Amendment, which requires grantees to make data resulting in published reports or cited in federal rules available to the public. ([Cato Institute](https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/case-public-access-federally-funded-research-data), News)

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