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Calendar No. 533 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4894 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 

Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 

AN ACT 

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, to require the budget justifications 

and appropriation requests of agencies be made publicly 

available. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Budget 

5 Justification Transparency Act of 2020’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS 

7 AND APPROPRIATION REQUESTS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the Federal Funding 

9 Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 


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1 109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended to read as 

2 follows: 

3 ‘‘SEC. 3. FULL DISCLOSURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS. 

4 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than monthly 

5 when practicable, and in any event not less frequently than 

6 quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director 

7 and, with respect to information described in subsection 

8 (b)(2), the head of the applicable agency) shall ensure that 

9 updated information with respect to the information de10 scribed in subsection (b) is posted on the website estab11 lished under section 2. 

12 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— 

13 ‘‘(1) FUNDS.—For any funds made available to 

14 or expended by a Federal agency or component of a 

15 Federal agency, the information to be posted shall 

16 include— 

17 ‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, in18 cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 

19 account, the amount— 

20 ‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 

21 ‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 

22 ‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 

23 ‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re24 sources; 


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1 ‘‘(B) from which accounts and in what 

2 amount— 

3 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

4 each program activity; and 

5 ‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro6 gram activity; 

7 ‘‘(C) from which accounts and in what 

8 amount— 

9 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

10 each object class; and 

11 ‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each object 

12 class; and 

13 ‘‘(D) for each program activity, the 

14 amount— 

15 ‘‘(i) obligated for each object class; 

16 and 

17 ‘‘(ii) of outlays made for each object 

18 class. 

19 ‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 

20 ‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 

21 term ‘budget justification materials’ means the 

22 annual budget justification materials of an 

23 agency that are submitted, in conjunction with 

24 the budget of the United States Government 

25 submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, 


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1 United States Code, but does not include budg2 et justification materials that are classified. 

3 ‘‘(B) INFORMATION.—The information to 

4 be posted shall include any budget justification 

5 materials— 

6 ‘‘(i) for the second fiscal year begin7 ning after the date of enactment of this 

8 paragraph, and each fiscal year thereafter; 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(ii) to the extent practicable, that 

11 were released for any fiscal year before the 

12 date of enactment of this paragraph. 

13 ‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate14 rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 

15 ‘‘(i) as an open Government data 

16 asset (as defined under section 3502 of 

17 title 44, United States Code); 

18 ‘‘(ii) in a manner that enables users 

19 to download individual reports, download 

20 all reports in bulk, and download in bulk 

21 the results of a search, to the extent prac22 ticable; and 

23 ‘‘(iii) in a structured data format, to 

24 the extent practicable. 


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1 ‘‘(D) DEADLINE.—The budget justification 

2 materials required to be posted under subpara3 graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 

4 weeks after the date on which the budget jus5 tification materials are first submitted to Con6 gress. 

7 ‘‘(E) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 

8 in this paragraph shall be construed to author9 ize an agency to destroy any budget justifica10 tion materials relating to a fiscal year before 

11 the fiscal year described in subparagraph 

12 (B)(i).’’. 

13 (b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET

14 JUSTIFICATIONS.—Section 1105 of title 31, United States 

15 Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 

16 ‘‘(i)(1) The Director of the Office of Management 

17 and Budget shall make publicly available on a website, and 

18 continuously update, a tabular list for each fiscal year of 

19 each agency that submits budget justification materials, 

20 which shall include— 

21 ‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 

22 ‘‘(B) a unique identifier that identifies the 

23 agency; 


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1 ‘‘(C) to the extent practicable, the date on 

2 which the budget justification materials of the agen3 cy are first submitted to Congress; 

4 ‘‘(D) the date on which the budget justification 

5 materials of the agency are posted online under sec6 tion 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

7 Transparency Act of 2006; 

8 ‘‘(E) the uniform resource locator where the 

9 budget justification materials are published on the 

10 website of the agency; and 

11 ‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the infor12 mation described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) 

13 with respect to the agency for all fiscal years for 

14 which budget justifications of the agency are made 

15 available under section 3 of the Federal Funding Ac16 countability and Transparency Act of 2006 in a 

17 structured data format. 

18 ‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits budget justifica19 tion materials shall make the materials available on the 

20 website of the agency, in accordance with the policies es21 tablished by the Director of the Office of Management and 

22 Budget under subparagraph (B). 

23 ‘‘(B) The Director of the Office of Management 

24 and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of 

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1 lating to making available materials under subpara2 graph (A), which shall include guidelines for making 

3 budget justification materials available in a format 

4 aligned with the requirements of section 3(b)(2)(C) 

5 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans6 parency Act of 2006 and using a uniform resource 

7 locator that is in a consistent format across agencies 

8 and is descriptive, memorable, and pronounceable, 

9 such as the format of ‘agencyname.gov/budget’. 

10 ‘‘(C) If the Director of the Office of Manage11 ment and Budget maintains a public website that 

12 contains the budget of the United States Govern13 ment submitted under subsection (a) and any re14 lated materials, such website shall also contain a 

15 link to the tabular list required under paragraph (1). 

16 ‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘budget justification 

17 materials’ has the meaning given that term in section 3 

18 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 

19 Act of 2006.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

21 The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 

22 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

23 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

24 titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 

25 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 


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1 by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro2 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

3 vote on passage. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 14, 

2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 533 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4894 

AN ACT 

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and 

cies be made publicly available. justifications and appropriation requests of agenTransparency Act of 2006, to require the budget 

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 

Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 


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