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<meta><dc:title>118 S 679 ENR: 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.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>679</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">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.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d417e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/679/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">GAO Database Modernization Act of 2023</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d417e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/679/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>RULES NO LONGER IN EFFECT.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a356874-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/679/s2/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">In General<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t5/s801/a/1">Section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a358f85-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="D">“(D) </num><chapeau>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—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a35b696-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><content>the title of the rule;</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a35b697-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the Federal Register citation for the rule, if any;</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a35b698-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the date on which rule was submitted to the Comptroller General; and</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a35b699-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>a description of the provisions of the rule that are being revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or otherwise made ineffective.”</content></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent>.<page/></content></subsection><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y3a35b69a-7ae6-11ef-94d8-c5efb187589f" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/679/s2/b" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Sunset<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><content>Effective on the date that is 6 years after the date of enactment of this Act, <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s801/a/1">section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subparagraph (D), as added by subsection (a).</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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