S. 272 

One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Sunday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty one 

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. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2021’’. 

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS AND 

APPROPRIATION REQUESTS. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is 

amended to read as follows: 

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

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than monthly when practicable, and in any event not less frequently than quarterly, the 

Secretary (in consultation with the Director and, with respect to 

information described in subsection (b)(2), the head of the applicable 

Federal agency) shall ensure that updated information with respect 

to the information described in subsection (b) is posted on the 

website established under section 2. 

‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— ‘‘(1) FUNDS.—For any funds made available to or expended 

by a Federal agency or component of a Federal agency, the 

information to be posted shall include— 

‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, including an 

expired or unexpired appropriations account, the amount— 

‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 

‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 

‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 

‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary resources; 

‘‘(B) from which accounts and in what amount— 

‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for each program 

activity; and 

‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each program activity; 

‘‘(C) from which accounts and in what amount— 

‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for each object 

class; and 

‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each object class; and 

‘‘(D) for each program activity, the amount— 

‘‘(i) obligated for each object class; and 
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‘‘(ii) of outlays made for each object class. 

‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 

‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph— 

‘‘(i) the term ‘budget justification materials’ means 

the annual budget justification materials of a Federal 

agency, or a component of a Federal agency, that are 

submitted, in conjunction with the budget of the United 

States Government submitted under section 1105(a) 

of title 31, United States Code; and 

‘‘(ii) the term ‘open Government data asset’ has 

the meaning given that term in section 3502 of title 

44, United States Code. 

‘‘(B) INFORMATION.—The information to be posted— 

‘‘(i) shall include any budget justification materials— 

‘‘(I) for the second fiscal year beginning after 

the date of enactment of this paragraph, and each 

fiscal year thereafter; and 

‘‘(II) to the extent practicable, that were 

released for any fiscal year before the date of enactment of this paragraph; and 

‘‘(ii) shall not include budget justification materials 

the disclosure of which is prohibited by law, that are 

classified, or that are exempt from disclosure under 

section 552(b) of title 5, United States Code. 

‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification materials shall be 

posted under subparagraph (B)— 

‘‘(i) as an open Government data asset; 

‘‘(ii) in a manner that enables users to download 

individual reports, download all reports in bulk, and 

download in bulk the results of a search, to the extent 

practicable; and 

‘‘(iii) in a structured data format, to the extent 

practicable. 

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

required to be posted under subparagraph (B)(i) shall be 

posted not later than 2 weeks after the date on which 

the budget justification materials are first submitted to 

Congress. 

‘‘(E) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize a Federal agency, 

or a component of a Federal agency, to destroy any budget 

justification materials relating to a fiscal year before the 

fiscal year described in subparagraph (B)(i).’’. 

(b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.—Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended 

by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(i)(1) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

shall make publicly available on a website, and continuously update, 

a tabular list for each fiscal year of each agency that submits 

budget justification materials, which shall include— 

‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 

‘‘(B) a unique identifier that identifies the agency; 

‘‘(C) to the extent practicable, the date on which the budget 

justification materials of the agency are first submitted to Congress; 
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‘‘(D) the date on which the budget justification materials 

of the agency are posted online under section 3 of the Federal 

Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 

U.S.C. 6101 note); 

‘‘(E) the uniform resource locator where the budget justification materials are published on the website of the agency; 

and 

‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the information 

described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) with respect to 

the agency for all fiscal years for which budget justifications 

of the agency are made available under section 3 of the Federal 

Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 

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

‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits budget justification materials 

shall make the materials available on the website of the agency, 

in accordance with the policies established by the Director of the 

Office of Management and Budget under subparagraph (B). 

‘‘(B) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 

this subsection, the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall 

establish policies and data standards for agencies relating to making 

available materials under subparagraph (A), which shall include 

guidelines for making budget justification materials available in 

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

the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 

(31 U.S.C. 6101 note) and using a uniform resource locator that 

is in a consistent format across agencies and is descriptive, memorable, and pronounceable, such as the format of ‘agencyname.gov/ 

budget’. 

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

maintains a public website that contains the budget of the United 

States Government submitted under subsection (a) and any related 

materials, such website shall also contain a link to the tabular 

list required under paragraph (1). 

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

has the meaning given that term in section 3(b)(2) of the Federal 

Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 

6101 note).’’. 

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

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

with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined 

by reference to the latest statement titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of 

PAYGO Legislation’’ for this Act, submitted for printing in the 
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Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior 

to the vote on passage. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.