[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4365 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4365
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze
certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with
existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 17, 2019
Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on
Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze
certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with
existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives.
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 ``Duplication Scoring Act of 2019''.
SEC. 2. ASSESSMENTS OF REPORTED BILLS BY GAO.
Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following:
``(i)(1) In this subsection--
``(A) the term `covered bill or resolution' means a bill or
joint resolution of a public character reported by any
committee of Congress (including the Committee on
Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget of either
House);
``(B) the term `Director' means the Director of the
Congressional Budget Office;
``(C) the term `existing duplicative or overlapping
feature' means an element of the Federal Government previously
identified in a GAO duplication and overlap report;
``(D) the term `GAO duplication and overlap report' means
each annual report prepared by the Comptroller General under
section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled `Joint Resolution
increasing the statutory limit on the public debt', approved
February 12, 2010 (31 U.S.C. 712 note); and
``(E) the term `new duplicative or overlapping feature'
means a new Federal program, office, or initiative created
under a covered bill or joint resolution that would duplicate
or overlap with an existing duplicative or overlapping feature.
``(2) For each covered bill or joint resolution--
``(A) the Comptroller General shall--
``(i) prepare an assessment--
``(I) to determine whether the covered bill
or joint resolution creates a new duplicative
or overlapping feature; and
``(II) if the covered bill or joint
resolution creates a new duplicative or
overlapping feature, that includes--
``(aa) the name of the new Federal
program, office, or initiative; and
``(bb) a reference to--
``(AA) the section of the
covered bill or joint
resolution at which the new
duplicative or overlapping
feature is established; and
``(BB) the GAO duplication
and overlap report in which the
existing duplicative or
overlapping feature is
identified;
``(ii) submit the assessment prepared under clause
(i) to the Director; and
``(iii) publish the assessment prepared under
clause (i) on the website of the Government
Accountability Office; and
``(B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director may include
the assessment submitted by the Comptroller General under
subparagraph (A)(ii) with the estimate for the covered bill or
joint resolution to which the assessment pertains submitted by
the Director under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653).
``(3) If the Comptroller General has not submitted to the Director
an assessment for a covered bill or joint resolution under paragraph
(2)(A)(ii) on the date on which the Director submits the estimate for
the covered bill or joint resolution to which the assessment pertains
under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
653), the Director may, on the date on which the Comptroller General
submits the assessment to the Director, prepare and submit to each
applicable committee a version of the estimate for the covered bill or
joint resolution that includes the assessment.''.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the earlier
of--
(1) the date that is 60 days after the date on which the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget next, in
accordance with section 1122(a) of title 31, United States
Code, updates the information made available on the website
required under that section; or
(2) the date on which a new Congress begins after the date
that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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