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Calendar No. 75 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 780 

[Report No. 118–31] 

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

legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing 

Federal programs, offices, and initiatives. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 14, 2023 

Mr. PAUL (for himself, Ms. HASSAN, and Mr. SCOTT of Florida) introduced 

the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 

on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

MAY 16, 2023 

Reported by Mr. PETERS, without amendment 

A BILL 

To require the Comptroller General of the United States 

to analyze certain legislation in order to prevent 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Duplication Scoring 

3 Act of 2023’’. 

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

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

6 amended by adding at the end the following: 

7 ‘‘(i)(1) In this subsection— 

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

9 means a bill or joint resolution of a public character 

10 reported by any committee of Congress (including 

11 the Committee on Appropriations and the Com12 mittee on the Budget of either House); 

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

14 the Congressional Budget Office; 

15 ‘‘(C) the term ‘existing duplicative or overlap16 ping feature’ means an element of the Federal Gov17 ernment previously identified as an area of duplica18 tion, overlap, or fragmentation in a GAO duplication 

19 and overlap report; 

20 ‘‘(D) the term ‘GAO duplication and overlap re21 port’ means each annual report prepared by the 

22 Comptroller General under section 21 of the Joint 

23 Resolution entitled ‘Joint Resolution increasing the 

24 statutory limit on the public debt’, approved Feb25 ruary 12, 2010 (31 U.S.C. 712 note); and 


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

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

3 initiative created under a covered bill or joint resolu4 tion that would duplicate or overlap with an existing 

5 duplicative or overlapping feature. 

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

7 ‘‘(A) the Comptroller General shall, to the ex8 tent practicable— 

9 ‘‘(i) determine the extent to which the cov10 ered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a 

11 new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if 

12 the risk so warrants, identify— 

13 ‘‘(I) the name of the new Federal pro14 gram, office, or initiative; 

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

16 joint resolution at which the new duplica17 tive or overlapping feature is established; 

18 and 

19 ‘‘(III) the GAO duplication and over20 lap report in which the existing duplicative 

21 or overlapping feature is identified; and 

22 ‘‘(ii) submit the information described in 

23 clause (i) to the Director and the committee 

24 that reported the covered bill or joint resolu25 tion; and 


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1 ‘‘(iii) publish the information prepared 

2 under clause (i) on the website of the Govern3 ment Accountability Office; and 

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

5 may include the information submitted by the Comp6 troller General under subparagraph (A)(ii) as a sup7 plement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint 

8 resolution to which the information pertains sub9 mitted by the Director under section 402 of the 

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

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

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

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

14 which the Director submits the estimate for the covered 

15 bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains 

16 under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

17 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653), the Director may, on the date on 

18 which the Comptroller General submits the information to 

19 the Director, prepare and submit to each applicable com20 mittee the information as a supplement to the estimate 

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

22 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

23 The amendment made by this Act shall take effect 

24 on the earlier of— 


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

2 which the Director of the Office of Management and 

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

4 title 31, United States Code, updates the informa5 tion made available on the website required under 

6 that section; or 

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

8 after the date that is 1 year after the date of enact9 ment of this Act. 


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Calendar No. 75 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 780 

[Report No. 118–31] 

A BILL 

To require the Comptroller General of the United 

Federal programs, offices, and initiatives. prevent duplication of and overlap with existing States to analyze certain legislation in order to 

MAY 16, 2023 

Reported without amendment 


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