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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10177 

To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants submitting duplicative 

or fraudulent applications, to require the Director of Office of Management and Budget to establish a tracking and deconfliction system for 

Federal grant applications, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 20, 2024 

Mrs. BICE (for herself, Mr. MOORE of Utah, and Mr. BEAN of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 

A BILL 

To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants submitting duplicative or fraudulent applications, to require 

the Director of Office of Management and Budget to 

establish a tracking and deconfliction system for Federal 

grant applications, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Decreasing Overlap5 ping Grants Efficiently Act’’ or the ‘‘DOGE Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FEDERAL GRANTS TO 

2 APPLICANTS SUBMITTING DUPLICATIVE OR 

3 FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS. 

4 (a) NO AWARD ON BASIS OF DUPLICATIVE APPLICA5 TION.— 

6 (1) PROHIBITION.— 

7 (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided for 

8 under subparagraph (B), the head of an execu9 tive agency may not award a grant to an appli10 cant determined by the head of the agency or 

11 the Inspector General of the agency to have re12 ceived another grant from the head of another 

13 executive agency for the same or identical pur14 pose. 

15 (B) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition under 

16 subparagraph (A) related to the award of 

17 grants for the same or identical purposes shall 

18 not apply to an applicant that is an institution 

19 of higher education. 

20 (2) DETERMINATION.—In the case that the 

21 head of an executive agency or the Inspector General 

22 of the agency determines that an applicant for a 

23 grant has submitted an application for another 

24 grant from another executive agency for the same or 

25 identical purpose, the heads of such agencies shall 

26 jointly determine which agency is the appropriate 


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1 agency to award the grant, if such grant is to be 

2 awarded to such applicant. 

3 (b) NO AWARD ON BASIS OF FRAUDULENT APPLICA4 TION.—The head of an executive agency may not award 

5 a grant to an applicant determined by the head of the 

6 agency or the Inspector General of the agency to have sub7 mitted a fraudulent application for such grant. 

8 SEC. 3. TRACKING AND DECONFLICTION SYSTEM FOR FED9 ERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 

10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 

11 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 

12 Office of Management and Budget shall make available 

13 to the heads of executive agencies, including the Inspec14 tors General of such agencies, an electronic system 

15 through which the head of an executive agency may deter16 mine before awarding a grant, or through which an In17 spector General of an executive agency may determine in 

18 conducting an audit or investigation, whether any appli19 cant for such grant has received, or submitted an applica20 tion to the head of another executive agency for, another 

21 grant for the same or identical purpose. 

22 (b) CONTENTS OF SYSTEM.—The system shall con23 tain at a minimum, the name of the awardee, the principal 

24 investigator, the award period, agency point of contact, 

25 and an abstract. 


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1 (c) ESSENTIALLY EQUIVALENT WORK.—The Direc2 tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall estab3 lish an electronic system which contains information for 

4 all federal research awards through which the head of an 

5 executive agency may determine before awarding a grant, 

6 or through which an Inspector General of an executive 

7 agency may determine in conducting an audit or investiga8 tion, whether any applicant for such award has received, 

9 or submitted an application to the head of another execu10 tive agency for, another award for essentially equivalent 

11 work. 

12 SEC. 4. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF LEVERAGING ARTIFI13 CIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY DUPLICA14 TIVE FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 

15 The Director of the Office of Management and Budg16 et, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Di17 rector of the National Science Foundation, and the Direc18 tor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 

19 shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees 

20 a report on the feasibility of leveraging artificial intel21 ligence to rapidly identify, with respect to an application 

22 for a grant submitted to the head of an executive agency— 

23 (1) whether an applicant for such grant has re24 ceived, or submitted an application to the head of 


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1 another executive agency for, another grant for the 

2 same or identical purpose; and 

3 (2) waste, fraud, and abuse. 

4 SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this Act: 

6 (1) APPLICABLE TIME PERIOD.—The term ‘‘ap7 plicable time period’’ means— 

8 (A) with respect to a covered application 

9 for a grant awarded after the date on which 

10 system is established under section 2(a), during 

11 the period— 

12 (i) beginning on the date on which 

13 such application is submitted; and 

14 (ii) ending on the date on which 

15 amounts under the grant are no longer 

16 being expended; and 

17 (B) with respect to a covered application 

18 for a grant awarded before the date on which 

19 the system is established under section 2(a), 

20 during the period— 

21 (i) beginning on that date; and 

22 (ii) ending on the date on which 

23 amounts under the grant are no longer 

24 being expended. 


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1 (2) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT2 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com3 mittees’’ means— 

4 (A) the Committee on Oversight and Ac5 countability and the Committee on Appropria6 tions of the House of Representatives; and 

7 (B) the Committee on Homeland Security 

8 and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 

9 on Appropriations of the Senate. 

10 (3) COVERED APPLICATION.—The term ‘‘cov11 ered application’’ means an application for a grant 

12 submitted to the head of an executive agency— 

13 (A) after the date on which the system is 

14 established under section 2(a); and 

15 (B) before that date, if amounts under the 

16 grant are still being expended on such date. 

17 (4) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 

18 agency’’ means an agency in the executive branch of 

19 the Federal Government. 

20 (5) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 

21 term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 

22 meaning given such term in section 102 of the High23 er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.1002). 

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