About

A calendar, not a newspaper

The Federal Register publishes chronologically, by the day a rule was printed. Each agency publishes its own rules on its own schedule. Neither arrangement answers the question a compliance calendar actually asks: what binds next, and who does it bind?

Luminory re-keys every federal final rule on its effective date and lays all 53 promulgating agencies on one forward view. That is the whole contribution. Everything else on the site is a cut of it.

What it is for

Finding what takes effect in a window, across agencies, without reading 53 publication schedules. It is a finding aid for the Federal Register, and every row links back to the source document.

What it is not

Not legal advice, and not a determination of coverage. Luminory records what binds and when. It does not state whether a rule applies to any person or organisation, and it does not interpret obligations. For applicability, read the rule and take advice. See the methodology for exactly which figures are read from the source and which are derived here.

Luminory is part of the Lattice network.