117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 272 

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 2021’’. 

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 (31 U.S.C. 

8 6101 note) is amended to read as follows: 

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

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

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

12 quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director 

13 and, with respect to information described in subsection 

14 (b)(2), the head of the applicable Federal agency) shall 

15 ensure that updated information with respect to the infor16 mation described in subsection (b) is posted on the website 

17 established under section 2. 

18 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— 

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

20 or expended by a Federal agency or component of a 

21 Federal agency, the information to be posted shall 

22 include— 

23 ‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, in24 cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 

25 account, the amount— 

26 ‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 
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1 ‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 

2 ‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 

3 ‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re4 sources; 

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

6 amount— 

7 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

8 each program activity; and 

9 ‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro10 gram activity; 

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

12 amount— 

13 ‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 

14 each object class; and 

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

16 class; and 

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

18 amount— 

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

20 and 

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

22 class. 

23 ‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 

24 ‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph— 
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1 ‘‘(i) the term ‘budget justification ma2 terials’ means the annual budget justifica3 tion materials of a Federal agency, or a 

4 component of a Federal agency, that are 

5 submitted, in conjunction with the budget 

6 of the United States Government sub7 mitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, 

8 United States Code; and 

9 ‘‘(ii) the term ‘open Government data 

10 asset’ has the meaning given that term in 

11 section 3502 of title 44, United States 

12 Code. 

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

14 be posted— 

15 ‘‘(i) shall include any budget justifica16 tion materials— 

17 ‘‘(I) for the second fiscal year be18 ginning after the date of enactment of 

19 this paragraph, and each fiscal year 

20 thereafter; and 

21 ‘‘(II) to the extent practicable, 

22 that were released for any fiscal year 

23 before the date of enactment of this 

24 paragraph; and 
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1 ‘‘(ii) shall not include budget justifica2 tion materials the disclosure of which is 

3 prohibited by law, that are classified, or 

4 that are exempt from disclosure under sec5 tion 552(b) of title 5, United States Code. 

6 ‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate7 rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 

8 ‘‘(i) as an open Government data 

9 asset; 

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

11 to download individual reports, download 

12 all reports in bulk, and download in bulk 

13 the results of a search, to the extent prac14 ticable; and 

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

16 the extent practicable. 

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

18 materials required to be posted under subpara19 graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 

20 weeks after the date on which the budget jus21 tification materials are first submitted to Con22 gress. 

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

24 in this paragraph shall be construed to author25 ize a Federal agency, or a component of a Fed-
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1 eral agency, to destroy any budget justification 

2 materials relating to a fiscal year before the fis3 cal year described in subparagraph (B)(i).’’. 

4 (b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET

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

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

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

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

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

10 each agency that submits budget justification materials, 

11 which shall include— 

12 ‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 

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

14 agency; 

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

16 which the budget justification materials of the agen17 cy are first submitted to Congress; 

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

19 materials of the agency are posted online under sec20 tion 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

21 Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note); 

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

23 budget justification materials are published on the 

24 website of the agency; and 
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1 ‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the infor2 mation described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) 

3 with respect to the agency for all fiscal years for 

4 which budget justifications of the agency are made 

5 available under section 3 of the Federal Funding Ac6 countability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 

7 U.S.C. 6101 note) in a structured data format. 

8 ‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits budget justifica9 tion materials shall make the materials available on the 

10 website of the agency, in accordance with the policies es11 tablished by the Director of the Office of Management and 

12 Budget under subparagraph (B). 

13 ‘‘(B) Not later than 1 year after the date of enact14 ment of this subsection, the Director of the Office of Man15 agement and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary 

16 of the Treasury, shall establish policies and data stand17 ards for agencies relating to making available materials 

18 under subparagraph (A), which shall include guidelines for 

19 making budget justification materials available in a format 

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

21 Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 

22 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) and using a uniform resource 

23 locator that is in a consistent format across agencies and 

24 is descriptive, memorable, and pronounceable, such as the 

25 format of ‘agencyname.gov/budget’. 
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1 ‘‘(C) If the Director of the Office of Management and 

2 Budget maintains a public website that contains the budg3 et of the United States Government submitted under sub4 section (a) and any related materials, such website shall 

5 also contain a link to the tabular list required under para6 graph (1). 

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

8 materials’ has the meaning given that term in section 

9 3(b)(2) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans10 parency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).’’. 

11 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

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

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

14 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

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

16 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

17 by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pro18 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

19 vote on passage. 

Passed the Senate June 24, 2021. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 272 

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