1.This Act may be cited as the
Eliminating Duplicative and
Inefficient Taxpayer Spending Act
.
2.Requirement for
Federal grant applicants to include certain information about similar Federal
grants in grant applications
(a)Each
applicant for a grant from an Executive agency shall submit, as part of the
application for the grant, the following information:
(1)A
list of each similar Federal grant the applicant applied for during the
one-year period preceding the date of submission of the application.
(2)A list of each similar Federal grant the
applicant received during the five-year period preceding the date of submission
of the application.
(3)A
statement of whether the applicant has ever been debarred or suspended by an
Executive agency from receiving Federal grants and, if so, a list of each such
debarment or suspension.
(b)If
an applicant does not include the information required by subsection (a) in an
application for a grant—
(1)the head of the
Executive agency may propose that the applicant be debarred or suspended from
receiving Federal grants in the future; and
(2)in the case of—
(A)a grant awarded
through merit-based selection procedures, the Executive agency may not award
the grant to the applicant; and
(B)a grant that is a
block grant or formula grant for which Federal funds are required to be
allocated in accordance with a distribution formula prescribed by law or
regulation or in which the allocation methodology for the grant funds is
mandated by law, the Executive agency may require the forfeiture or repayment
of the grant.
3.Responsibilities
of Office of Management and Budget
(a)
(1)The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
issue guidance to implement this Act. The guidance shall include the policies
and procedures described in paragraph (2) as well as such other additional
policies and procedures that the Director considers appropriate for carrying
out this Act.
(2)In the guidance
issued under paragraph (1), the Director shall establish uniform policies and
procedures to ensure that each Executive agency shares information about grants
awarded by the agency both within the agency and among other appropriate
Executive agencies that might be awarding similar Federal grants.
(b)Enforcement of
information sharing
(1)If an Executive agency does not comply with
the information sharing requirements of the guidance issued under subsection
(a) during a fiscal year, a senior executive within that agency may not be
granted, during the succeeding fiscal year, a sabbatical under section 3396(c)
of title 5, United States Code.
(2)If an Executive agency
does not comply with the information sharing requirements of the guidance
issued under subsection (a) during a fiscal year, a senior executive within
that agency may not receive, during the succeeding fiscal year, any incentive
award under subchapter I of chapter 45 of title 5, United States Code.
4.In this Act:
(1)The term
Executive agency
has the meaning provided by section 105 of
title 5, United States Code, except the term does not include the Government
Accountability Office.
(2)The term similar Federal
grant
, with respect to an application submitted for a Federal grant,
means another Federal grant to provide a program, service, or product that is
substantially overlapping or duplicative in nature, as determined by the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or identical, to the program,
service, or product to be provided under the grant for which the application is
being submitted.
5.This Act shall apply to grant applications
submitted on or after the date occurring 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act.