[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4222 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4222

 To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to require Federal 
 agencies to submit to the Comptroller General of the United States a 
  report on rules that are revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or 
                      otherwise made ineffective.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 20, 2020

  Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read 
     twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to require Federal 
 agencies to submit to the Comptroller General of the United States a 
  report on rules that are revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or 
                      otherwise made ineffective.

    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 ``GAO Database Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. RULES NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

    Section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) For any rule submitted under subparagraph (A), if the 
        Federal agency promulgating the rule, in whole or in part, 
        revokes, suspends, replaces, amends, or otherwise makes the 
        rule ineffective, or the rule is made ineffective for any other 
        reason, the Federal agency shall submit to the Comptroller 
        General a report containing--
                    ``(i) the title of the rule;
                    ``(ii) the Federal Register citation for the rule, 
                if any;
                    ``(iii) the date on which rule was submitted to the 
                Comptroller General; and
                    ``(iv) a description of the provisions of the rule 
                that are being revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, 
                or otherwise made ineffective.''.
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