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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 22 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 4, 2021 

Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Mr. COMER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 

COOPER, Mr. KHANNA, and Mrs. AXNE) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in 

addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently 

determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

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 2021’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS 

2 AND APPROPRIATION REQUESTS. 

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

4 Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 

5 109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended to read as 

6 follows: 

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

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

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

10 quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director 

11 and, with respect to information described in subsection 

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

13 updated information with respect to the information de14 scribed in subsection (b) is posted on the website estab15 lished under section 2. 

16 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— 

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

18 or expended by a Federal agency or component of a 

19 Federal agency, the information to be posted shall 

20 include— 

21 ‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, in22 cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 

23 account, the amount— 

24 ‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 

25 ‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 

26 ‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 


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1 ‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re2 sources; 

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

4 amount— 

5 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

6 each program activity; and 

7 ‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro8 gram activity; 

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

10 amount— 

11 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

12 each object class; and 

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

14 class; and 

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

16 amount— 

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

18 and 

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

20 class. 

21 ‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 

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

23 term ‘budget justification materials’ means the 

24 annual budget justification materials of an 

25 agency that are submitted, in conjunction with 


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1 the budget of the United States Government 

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

3 United States Code, but does not include budg4 et justification materials that are classified. 

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

6 be posted shall include any budget justification 

7 materials— 

8 ‘‘(i) for the second fiscal year begin9 ning after the date of enactment of this 

10 paragraph, and each fiscal year thereafter; 

11 and 

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

13 were released for any fiscal year before the 

14 date of enactment of this paragraph. 

15 ‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate16 rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 

17 ‘‘(i) as an open Government data 

18 asset (as defined under section 3502 of 

19 title 44, United States Code); 

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

21 to download individual reports, download 

22 all reports in bulk, and download in bulk 

23 the results of a search, to the extent prac24 ticable; and 


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

2 the extent practicable. 

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

4 materials required to be posted under subpara5 graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 

6 weeks after the date on which the budget jus7 tification materials are first submitted to Con8 gress. 

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

10 in this paragraph shall be construed to author11 ize an agency to destroy any budget justifica12 tion materials relating to a fiscal year before 

13 the fiscal year described in subparagraph 

14 (B)(i).’’. 

15 (b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET

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

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

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

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

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

21 each agency that submits budget justification materials, 

22 which shall include— 

23 ‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 

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

25 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 and 

24 Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treas25 ury, shall establish policies for agencies relating to making 


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1 available materials under subparagraph (A), which shall 

2 include guidelines for making budget justification mate3 rials available in a format aligned with the requirements 

4 of section 3(b)(2)(C) of the Federal Funding Account5 ability and Transparency Act of 2006 and using a uniform 

6 resource locator that is in a consistent format across agen7 cies and is descriptive, memorable, and pronounceable, 

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

9 ‘‘(C) If the Director of the Office of Management and 

10 Budget maintains a public website that contains the budg11 et of the United States Government submitted under sub12 section (a) and any related materials, such website shall 

13 also contain a link to the tabular list required under para14 graph (1). 

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

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

17 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 

18 Act of 2006.’’. 

19 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

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

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

22 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

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

24 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

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1 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

2 vote on passage. 

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