[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4637 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4637

     To require the sunset of certain Federal Government reporting 
           requirements to Congress, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 9, 2014

 Ms. Bonamici introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
     To require the sunset of certain Federal Government reporting 
           requirements to Congress, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Government Reporting Efficiency Act 
of 2014''.

SEC. 2. SUNSET OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--On the date that is 5 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act (hereafter, ``original sunset date''), and every 
5 years after the original sunset date (hereafter, ``subsequent sunset 
date''), any statutory requirement for an entity of the Federal 
Government to submit a report to Congress that is in effect on or after 
the original sunset date, or the subsequent sunset date, as applicable, 
shall have no force or effect if the requirement does not include the 
permanent exception sentence under subsection (b), except for any 
statutory requirement to submit a report to Congress that is enacted 
after the sunset date, or the subsequent sunset date, as applicable.
    (b) Permanent Exception to Automatic Sunset.--With respect to any 
statutory requirement to submit a report to Congress that is an 
exception under subsection (a), such requirement shall have no force or 
effect on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of 
such requirement, unless the requirement includes the following 
sentence: ``This reporting requirement is a permanent exception under 
the Government Reporting Efficiency Act of 2014.''.
                                 <all>