[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9751 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9751

   To include certain executive and judicial actions in the baseline 
calculation by the Congressional Budget Office, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2024

  Mr. Estes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
   To include certain executive and judicial actions in the baseline 
calculation by the Congressional Budget Office, 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 ``Executive Action Cost Transparency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING BASELINE DATA BY INCLUDING EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL 
              ACTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
    ``(f) Executive and Judicial Actions.--To the extent practicable, 
any calculation of the baseline and any update shall include any 
judicial action and any executive action (including any proposed rule, 
final rule, executive order, or memorandum) consistent with the 
scorekeeping guidelines determined under section 252(d)(5).''.
    (b) Separate Table in Report.--Section 202(e)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 602) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: ``To the extent practicable, the report and any 
update to the report shall include a table of any judicial action and 
any executive action described in section 257(f) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 that was issued on or after 
the last publication of the report or the most recent update to the 
report (as the case may be) if the Director estimates the judicial 
action or the executive action has budgetary effects of at least 
$50,000,000,000 during the current year, budget year, and the nine 
years following the budget year. Any proposed executive action shall be 
assumed to be final for purposes of determining whether to include the 
proposed action in the table and shall only be included consistent with 
the scorekeeping guidelines determined under section 252(d)(5) of such 
Act.''.
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