All of the governmentwide and agencyspecific resources discussed thus far are passive information systems, requiring users to take the initiative and find out about upcoming and recently proposed rules.
These systems don't require users to take an initiative. 
mnli hypothesis: These systems don't require users to take an initiative.  premise: All of the governmentwide and agencyspecific resources discussed thus far are passive information systems, requiring users to take the initiative and find out about upcoming and recently proposed rules.