US Regulatory Change Digest

US Regulatory Change Digest: Federal Register Rules, Comment Deadlines & Effective Dates

A daily or weekly feed of new US federal rules, proposed rules and notices from the official Federal Register, filtered to the agencies and industries you care about, with comment deadlines, effective dates, dockets and RINs on every row. Turn on "only new since the last run" and schedule it, and you get exactly what changed, nothing you've already seen.

Built for compliance officers at regulated companies (food, pharma, finance, energy, construction, transportation), compliance consultants, regulatory-affairs teams, law firms, trade associations and policy researchers.

What it does

• Industry presets: pick an industry and it follows every agency that regulates it. 17 presets, for example Food (FDA, FSIS, AMS, APHIS), Banking and lending (CFPB, FDIC, OCC, Fed, NCUA, FinCEN, FHFA), Construction and workplace safety (OSHA, MSHA, EPA, HUD), Transportation, Energy, Trade, customs and sanctions, Tax.
• Any agency: add agencies by name ("Securities and Exchange Commission") or Federal Register slug.
• Keywords: full-text search ("PFAS", ""beneficial ownership"", "cybersecurity"), combined with your agencies.
• Deadlines first: commentsCloseOn, daysUntilCommentDeadline, commentPeriodOpen and effectiveDate on every document; keep only open comment periods with one switch.
• Only what's new: remembers what earlier runs returned (separately for each filter setup) and reports only new documents.
• Tomorrow's documents today (optional): includes documents already on public inspection, filed for the next day's issue (status: "upcoming"), and reports them again when they're published.
• Significant rules only (optional): rules flagged significant under Executive Order 12866.
• Final rules and proposed rules by default; notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations) on request. Corrections are flagged.

Input

{
  "industries": ["food", "pharma-medical-devices"],
  "keywords": [],
  "documentTypes": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "commentPeriodOpenOnly": false
}

Weekly digest: daysBack: 7, onlyNew: true, scheduled every Monday. Daily alert: daysBack: 2, onlyNew: true, scheduled every morning. Comment tracker: commentPeriodOpenOnly: true, daysBack: 90.

Output

One row per document, newest first:

{
  "status": "published",
  "documentNumber": "2026-21794",
  "documentType": "Proposed Rule",
  "title": "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 108 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles",
  "action": "Notice of proposed rulemaking.",
  "abstract": "NHTSA is proposing to amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108...",
  "agencies": ["Transportation Department", "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration"],
  "industries": ["transportation"],
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-26",
  "effectiveDate": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-11-25",
  "commentPeriodOpen": true,
  "daysUntilCommentDeadline": 31,
  "docketIds": ["Docket No. NHTSA-2026-1519"],
  "regulationIdNumbers": ["2127-AM70"],
  "cfrReferences": ["49 CFR 571"],
  "topics": ["Motor vehicle safety", "Motor vehicles"],
  "significant": true,
  "isCorrection": false,
  "citation": "91 FR 67243",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/26/2026-21794/...",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-26/pdf/2026-21794.pdf",
  "changeType": "new"
}

changeType appears in only-new mode: new, or published for an upcoming document that has now been published. Upcoming documents have no abstract or dates yet.

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 documents. No start fee. A scheduled only-new run on a quiet day returns a handful of documents and costs almost nothing. Set Maximum results to cap a run.

Good to know

• Data comes from the Federal Register API (federalregister.gov, published by the Office of the Federal Register and GPO). The Federal Register is the official daily publication of US federal rules; its contents are public domain.
• A typical week has about 400-600 documents across all agencies; a single industry is usually 10-100.
• This is an awareness feed, not legal advice: always read the official document before acting.

Questions: open an issue or email hello@weirworks.com.

Independent tool by weirworks. Not affiliated with the Office of the Federal Register, GPO or any federal agency.