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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 272 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        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
                ``(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;
        ``(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 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.
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