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[S. 2183 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 216
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2183

                          [Report No. 116-113]

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2019

    Mr. Paul (for himself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Lankford, and Ms. Ernst) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

                           September 23, 2019

 Reported by Mr. Johnson, with amendments and an amendment to the title
  [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]

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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 joint 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  as an area of duplication, overlap, or 
        fragmentation 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 Public Law 111-139 (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, to the extent 
        practicable--
                <DELETED>    ``(i) prepare an assessment--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(I) to determine whether the 
                        covered bill or joint resolution creates a new 
                        duplicative or overlapping feature; 
                        and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(II) if the covered bill or 
                        joint resolution creates a new duplicative or 
                        overlapping feature, that includes--</DELETED>
                                <DELETED>    ``(aa) the name of the new 
                                Federal program, office, or initiative; 
                                and</DELETED>
                                <DELETED>    ``(bb) a reference to--
                                </DELETED>
                                        <DELETED>    ``(AA) the section 
                                        of the covered bill or joint 
                                        resolution at which the new 
                                        duplicative or overlapping 
                                        feature is established; 
                                        and</DELETED>
                                        <DELETED>    ``(BB) the GAO 
                                        duplication and overlap report 
                                        in which the existing 
                                        duplicative or overlapping 
                                        feature is 
                                        identified;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(ii) submit the assessment prepared 
                under clause (i) to the Director; and</DELETED>
                    ``(i) determine the extent to which the covered 
                bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a new 
                duplicative or overlapping feature and, if the risk so 
                warrants, identify--
                            ``(I) the name of the new Federal program, 
                        office, or initiative;
                            ``(II) the section of the covered bill or 
                        joint resolution at which the new duplicative 
                        or overlapping feature is established; and
                            ``(III) the GAO duplication and overlap 
                        report in which the existing duplicative or 
                        overlapping feature is identified; and
                    ``(ii) submit the information described in clause 
                (i) to the Director and the committee that reported the 
                covered bill or joint resolution; and
                    ``(iii) publish the assessment information prepared 
                under clause (i) on the website of the Government 
                Accountability Office; and
            ``(B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director may include 
        the assessment information submitted by the Comptroller General 
        under subparagraph (A)(ii) with as a supplement to the estimate 
        for the covered bill or joint resolution to which the 
        assessment information 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 the information 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 information 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 information 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. the information as a supplement to the estimate for the 
covered bill or joint resolution.''.

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.
            Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to require the 
        Comptroller General of the United States to review certain 
        legislation in order to identify potential risks of duplication 
        of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and 
        initiatives.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 216

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2183

                          [Report No. 116-113]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 23, 2019

         Reported with amendments and an amendment to the title