116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4894 

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, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Justification Transparency Act of 2020’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS 

5 AND APPROPRIATION REQUESTS. 

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

7 Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 

8 109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended to read as 

9 follows: 

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

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

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

13 quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director 

14 and, with respect to information described in subsection 

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

16 updated information with respect to the information de17 scribed in subsection (b) is posted on the website estab18 lished under section 2. 

19 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— 

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

21 or expended by a Federal agency or component of a 

22 Federal agency, the information to be posted shall 

23 include— 

24 ‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, in25 cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 

26 account, the amount— 
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1 ‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 

2 ‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 

3 ‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 

4 ‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re5 sources; 

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

7 amount— 

8 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

9 each program activity; and 

10 ‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro11 gram activity; 

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

13 amount— 

14 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

15 each object class; and 

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

17 class; and 

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

19 amount— 

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

21 and 

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

23 class. 

24 ‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 
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1 ‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 

2 term ‘budget justification materials’ means the 

3 annual budget justification materials of an 

4 agency that are submitted, in conjunction with 

5 the budget of the United States Government 

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

7 United States Code, but does not include budg8 et justification materials that are classified. 

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

10 be posted shall include any budget justification 

11 materials— 

12 ‘‘(i) for the second fiscal year begin13 ning after the date of enactment of this 

14 paragraph, and each fiscal year thereafter; 

15 and 

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

17 were released for any fiscal year before the 

18 date of enactment of this paragraph. 

19 ‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate20 rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 

21 ‘‘(i) as an open Government data 

22 asset (as defined under section 3502 of 

23 title 44, United States Code); 

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

25 to download individual reports, download 
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1 all reports in bulk, and download in bulk 

2 the results of a search, to the extent prac3 ticable; and 

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

5 the extent practicable. 

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

7 materials required to be posted under subpara8 graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 

9 weeks after the date on which the budget jus10 tification materials are first submitted to Con11 gress. 

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

13 in this paragraph shall be construed to author14 ize an agency to destroy any budget justifica15 tion materials relating to a fiscal year before 

16 the fiscal year described in subparagraph 

17 (B)(i).’’. 

18 (b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET

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

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

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

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

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

24 each agency that submits budget justification materials, 

25 which shall include— 
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1 ‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 

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

3 agency; 

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

5 which the budget justification materials of the agen6 cy are first submitted to Congress; 

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

8 materials of the agency are posted online under sec9 tion 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

10 Transparency Act of 2006; 

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

12 budget justification materials are published on the 

13 website of the agency; and 

14 ‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the infor15 mation described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) 

16 with respect to the agency for all fiscal years for 

17 which budget justifications of the agency are made 

18 available under section 3 of the Federal Funding Ac19 countability and Transparency Act of 2006 in a 

20 structured data format. 

21 ‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits budget justifica22 tion materials shall make the materials available on the 

23 website of the agency, in accordance with the policies es24 tablished by the Director of the Office of Management and 

25 Budget under subparagraph (B). 
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1 ‘‘(B) The Director of the Office of Management 

2 and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of 

3 the Treasury, shall establish policies for agencies re4 lating to making available materials under subpara5 graph (A), which shall include guidelines for making 

6 budget justification materials available in a format 

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

8 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans9 parency Act of 2006 and using a uniform resource 

10 locator that is in a consistent format across agencies 

11 and is descriptive, memorable, and pronounceable, 

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

13 ‘‘(C) If the Director of the Office of Manage14 ment and Budget maintains a public website that 

15 contains the budget of the United States Govern16 ment submitted under subsection (a) and any re17 lated materials, such website shall also contain a 

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

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

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

21 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 

22 Act of 2006.’’. 

23 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

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

25 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
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1 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

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

3 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

4 by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro5 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

6 vote on passage. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 14, 

2020. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

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