[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 679 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 679

 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

                             March 7, 2023

   Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself and Mr. Peters) 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 of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. RULES NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

    (a) In General.--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.''.
    (b) Sunset.--Effective on the date that is 6 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking subparagraph (D), as added by subsection 
(a).
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