Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act

3.0.0 317 2023-01-11T13:34:49Z 2023-01-11T13:34:49Z Senate S 2017-02-06 115 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2017-05-01T20:12:49Z Markup by 2017-03-15T15:49:24Z Referred to 2017-02-06T23:17:14Z S. Rept. 115-34 Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act 115 71 HR 2017-01-05 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS 2017-05-01 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 43. Calendars 2017-05-01 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 115-34. Committee 2017-05-01 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 115-34. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee 2017-03-15 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably. Committee 2017-02-06 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2017-02-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK N M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2017-02-06 True J000293 Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] Ron Johnson R WI 2017-02-06 True H001069 Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND] Heidi Heitkamp D ND 2017-02-06 True M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY 2017-02-06 True H001076 Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] Maggie Hassan D NH 2017-02-06 True P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2017-02-06 True D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2017-02-06 True F000463 Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] Deb Fischer R NE 2017-02-06 True E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2017-03-02 False T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT 2017-05-17 False K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA Neely 2017-11-13 False 2017-04-07T15:02:00Z S. 317, Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52582 As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017 Government Operations and Politics Accounting and auditing Congressional oversight Executive agency funding and structure Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Performance measurement Government Operations and Politics

00 2017-02-06 Introduced in Senate 2017-08-08T13:42:49Z Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act

This bill requires that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website include an inventory that identifies each federal program for which there is more than $1 million in annual budget authority.

For programs for which there is more than $1 million but not more than $10 million in annual budget authority (smaller programs), the inventory must include:

an identification of the program activities that are aggregated, disaggregated, or consolidated;
for each such program activity, the amount of funding for the current fiscal year and the previous two fiscal years;
an identification of the statutes that authorize the program and any major regulations specific to the program;
a description of the individuals served by a program and beneficiaries who received financial assistance under a program for the most recent fiscal year; and
links to any evaluation, assessment, or program performance reviews by the agency, an Inspector General, or the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released during the preceding five years.

For programs for which there is more than $10 million in annual budget authority (larger programs), the inventory must also include specified additional information, including financial information for each program activity required to be reported under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

The OMB shall archive and preserve the program inventory.

The bill requires the OMB to issue initial guidance to assist agencies in identifying how the program activities used in budget or appropriations accounts correspond with programs identified in the program inventory. The OMB may: (1) issue initial guidance to agencies to ensure that programs are presented at a similar level of detail across agencies and are not duplicative; (2) exempt from the requirements of this bill, based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, agencies that are not required to have a chief financial officer and that have not more than $10 million in budget authority; and (3) based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, extend the bill's implementation deadline (June 30, 2019) in one-year increments and by not more than two years.

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01 2017-05-01 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2018-01-18T23:10:01Z Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act

(Sec. 2) This bill requires that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website include an inventory that identifies each federal program for which there is more than $1 million in annual budget authority.

For programs for which there is more than $1 million but not more than $10 million in annual budget authority (smaller programs), the inventory must include:

an identification of the program activities that are aggregated, disaggregated, or consolidated;
for each such program activity, the amount of funding for the current fiscal year and the previous two fiscal years;
an identification of the statutes that authorize the program and any major regulations specific to the program;
a description of the individuals served by a program and beneficiaries who received financial assistance under a program for the most recent fiscal year; and
links to any evaluation, assessment, or program performance reviews by the agency, an Inspector General, or the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released during the preceding five years.

The OMB shall archive and preserve the program inventory.

(Sec. 3) The bill requires the OMB to issue initial guidance to assist agencies in identifying how the program activities used in budget or appropriations accounts correspond with programs identified in the program inventory. The OMB may: (1) issue initial guidance to agencies to ensure that programs are presented at a similar level of detail across agencies and are not duplicative; (2) exempt from the requirements of this bill, based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, agencies that are not required to have a chief financial officer and that have not more than $10 million in budget authority; and (3) based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, extend the bill's implementation deadline (June 30, 2019) in one-year increments and by not more than two years.

The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress by five years after this bill's enactment regarding its implementation.

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Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act Display Title Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among them, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act S Senate Reported to Senate 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s317rs/xml/BILLS-115s317rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s317is/xml/BILLS-115s317is.xml 2017-05-01 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 43. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.