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How a guidance document reaches this site
Agencies submit their guidance, the Secretary of State’s office publishes it, and it stays on the public record from then on.
- 1Agency
The agency submits the document
An Agency Submitter at the agency prepares the record and attaches the document as a PDF, then submits it. The document is given its docket number when it is submitted.
- 2Secretary of State
The Secretary of State’s office reviews it
The office checks the submission. It publishes it, returns it to the agency for correction, or denies it. A returned or denied submission goes back to the agency, which can correct it and submit it again.
- 3Public
The document is published
Once published, the document appears in search and in the Guidance index, with its PDF, its details and a final docket number.
- 4Agency
The agency amends or rescinds it
An amendment is a new version with its own docket number, reviewed and published the same way. It replaces the earlier version, which stays on the record. A rescission withdraws the guidance; the document stays on the record for public history.
The status every published document shows
- Active
- The current version of the guidance.
- Superseded / Archived
- Replaced by an amendment, and kept on the record.
- Rescinded
- Withdrawn by the agency, and kept on the record.
Help explains these and a document’s version in more detail.