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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 664 

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to review certain 

legislation in order to identify potential risks of duplication of and 

overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 10, 2021 

Mr. PAUL (for himself, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. LANKFORD, and Ms. ERNST) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Comptroller General of the United States 

to review certain legislation in order to identify potential 

risks of duplication of and overlap with existing Federal 

programs, offices, and initiatives. 

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 ‘‘Duplication Scoring 

5 Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ASSESSMENTS OF REPORTED BILLS BY GAO. 

7 Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is 

8 amended by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(i)(1) In this subsection— 

2 ‘‘(A) the term ‘covered bill or joint resolution’ 

3 means a bill or joint resolution of a public character 

4 reported by any committee of Congress (including 

5 the Committee on Appropriations and the Com6 mittee on the Budget of either House); 

7 ‘‘(B) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of 

8 the Congressional Budget Office; 

9 ‘‘(C) the term ‘existing duplicative or overlap10 ping feature’ means an element of the Federal Gov11 ernment previously identified as an area of duplica12 tion, overlap, or fragmentation in a GAO duplication 

13 and overlap report; 

14 ‘‘(D) the term ‘GAO duplication and overlap re15 port’ means each annual report prepared by the 

16 Comptroller General under section 21 of Public Law 

17 111–139 (31 U.S.C. 712 note); and 

18 ‘‘(E) the term ‘new duplicative or overlapping 

19 feature’ means a new Federal program, office, or 

20 initiative created under a covered bill or joint resolu21 tion that would duplicate or overlap with an existing 

22 duplicative or overlapping feature. 

23 ‘‘(2) For each covered bill or joint resolution— 

24 ‘‘(A) the Comptroller General shall, to the ex25 tent practicable— 


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1 ‘‘(i) determine the extent to which the cov2 ered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a 

3 new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if 

4 the risk so warrants, identify— 

5 ‘‘(I) the name of the new Federal pro6 gram, office, or initiative; 

7 ‘‘(II) the section of the covered bill or 

8 joint resolution at which the new duplica9 tive or overlapping feature is established; 

10 and 

11 ‘‘(III) the GAO duplication and over12 lap report in which the existing duplicative 

13 or overlapping feature is identified; and 

14 ‘‘(ii) submit the information described in 

15 clause (i) to the Director and the committee 

16 that reported the covered bill or joint resolu17 tion; and 

18 ‘‘(iii) publish the information prepared 

19 under clause (i) on the website of the Govern20 ment Accountability Office; and 

21 ‘‘(B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director 

22 may include the information submitted by the Comp23 troller General under subparagraph (A)(ii) as a sup24 plement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint 

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1 mitted by the Director under section 402 of the 

2 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653). 

3 ‘‘(3) If the Comptroller General has not submitted 

4 to the Director the information for a covered bill or joint 

5 resolution under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) on the date on 

6 which the Director submits the estimate for the covered 

7 bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains 

8 under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

9 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653), the Director may, on the date on 

10 which the Comptroller General submits the information to 

11 the Director, prepare and submit to each applicable com12 mittee the information as a supplement to the estimate 

13 for the covered bill or joint resolution.’’. 

14 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

15 The amendment made by this Act shall take effect 

16 on the earlier of— 

17 (1) the date that is 60 days after the date on 

18 which the Director of the Office of Management and 

19 Budget next, in accordance with section 1122(a) of 

20 title 31, United States Code, updates the informa21 tion made available on the website required under 

22 that section; or 


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1 (2) the date on which a new Congress begins 

2 after the date that is 1 year after the date of enact3 ment of this Act. 

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