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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3830 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 10, 2020 

Received 

AN ACT 

To provide taxpayers with an improved understanding of 

Government programs through the disclosure of cost, 

performance, and areas of duplication among them, leverage existing data to achieve a functional Federal program inventory, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Taxpayers Right-To3 Know Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INVENTORY OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. 

5 Section 1122(a) of title 31, United States Code, is 

6 amended— 

7 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 

8 paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; 

9 (2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so re10 designated, the following: 

11 ‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub12 section— 

13 ‘‘(A) the term ‘Federal financial assist14 ance’ has the meaning given that term under 

15 section 7501; 

16 ‘‘(B) the term ‘open Government data 

17 asset’ has the meaning given that term under 

18 section 3502 of title 44; 

19 ‘‘(C) the term ‘program’ means a single 

20 program activity or an organized set of aggre21 gated, disaggregated, or consolidated program 

22 activities by one or more agencies directed to23 ward a common purpose or goal; and 

24 ‘‘(D) the term ‘program activity’ has the 

25 meaning given that term in section 1115(h).’’; 

26 (3) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated— 


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1 (A) by striking ‘‘IN GENERAL.—Not later 

2 than October 1, 2012, the Office of Manage3 ment and Budget shall’’ and inserting 

4 ‘‘WEBSITE AND PROGRAM INVENTORY.—The 

5 Director of the Office of Management and 

6 Budget shall’’; 

7 (B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 

8 ‘‘that includes the information required under 

9 subsections (b) and (c)’’ after ‘‘a single 

10 website’’; and 

11 (C) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) 

12 and inserting the following: 

13 ‘‘(B) include on the website described in 

14 subparagraph (A), or another appropriate Fed15 eral Government website where related informa16 tion is made available, as determined by the Di17 rector— 

18 ‘‘(i) a program inventory that shall 

19 identify each program; and 

20 ‘‘(ii) for each program identified in 

21 the program inventory, the information re22 quired under paragraph (3); 

23 ‘‘(C) make the information in the program 

24 inventory required under subparagraph (B) 


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1 available as an open Government data asset; 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(D) at a minimum— 

4 ‘‘(i) update the information required 

5 to be included on the single website under 

6 subparagraph (A) on a quarterly basis; 

7 and 

8 ‘‘(ii) update the program inventory re9 quired under subparagraph (B) on an an10 nual basis.’’; 

11 (4) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated— 

12 (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 

13 (A), by striking ‘‘described under paragraph (1) 

14 shall include’’ and inserting ‘‘identified in the 

15 program inventory required under paragraph 

16 (2)(B) shall include’’; 

17 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

18 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

19 (C) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 

20 period at the end and inserting ‘‘and,’’; and 

21 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

22 ‘‘(D) for each program activity that is part 

23 of a program— 

24 ‘‘(i) a description of the purposes of 

25 the program activity and the contribution 


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1 of the program activity to the mission and 

2 goals of the agency; 

3 ‘‘(ii) a consolidated view for the cur4 rent fiscal year and each of the 2 fiscal 

5 years before the current fiscal year of— 

6 ‘‘(I) the amount appropriated; 

7 ‘‘(II) the amount obligated; and 

8 ‘‘(III) the amount outlayed; 

9 ‘‘(iii) to the extent practicable and 

10 permitted by law, links to any related eval11 uation, assessment, or program perform12 ance review by the agency, an inspector 

13 general, or the Government Accountability 

14 Office (including program performance re15 ports required under section 1116), and 

16 other related evidence assembled in re17 sponse to implementation of the Founda18 tions for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act 

19 of 2018 (Public Law 115–435; 132 Stat. 

20 5529); 

21 ‘‘(iv) an identification of the statutes 

22 that authorize the program activity or the 

23 authority under which the program activity 

24 was created or operates; 


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1 ‘‘(v) an identification of any major 

2 regulations specific to the program activity; 

3 ‘‘(vi) any other information that the 

4 Director of the Office of Management and 

5 Budget determines relevant relating to pro6 gram activity data in priority areas most 

7 relevant to Congress or the public to in8 crease transparency and accountability; 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(vii) for each assistance listing under 

11 which Federal financial assistance is pro12 vided, for the current fiscal year and each 

13 of the 2 fiscal years before the current fis14 cal year and consistent with existing law 

15 relating to the protection of personally 

16 identifiable information— 

17 ‘‘(I) a linkage to the relevant 

18 program activities that fund Federal 

19 financial assistance by assistance list20 ing; 

21 ‘‘(II) information on the popu22 lation intended to be served by the as23 sistance listing based on the language 

24 of the solicitation, as required under 

25 section 6102; 


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1 ‘‘(III) to the extent practicable 

2 and based on data reported to the 

3 agency providing the Federal financial 

4 assistance, the results of the Federal 

5 financial assistance awards provided 

6 by the assistance listing; 

7 ‘‘(IV) to the extent practicable, 

8 the percentage of the amount appro9 priated for the assistance listing that 

10 is used for management and adminis11 tration; 

12 ‘‘(V) the identification of each 

13 award of Federal financial assistance 

14 and, to the extent practicable, the 

15 name of each direct or indirect recipi16 ent of the award; and 

17 ‘‘(VI) any information relating to 

18 the award of Federal financial assist19 ance that is required to be included on 

20 the website established under section 

21 2(b) of the Federal Funding Account22 ability and Transparency Act of 2006 

23 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).’’; and 

24 (5) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(4) ARCHIVING.—The Director of the Office of 

2 Management and Budget shall— 

3 ‘‘(A) archive and preserve the information 

4 included in the program inventory required 

5 under paragraph (2)(B) after the end of the pe6 riod during which such information is made 

7 available under paragraph (3); and 

8 ‘‘(B) make information archived in accord9 ance with subparagraph (A) publicly available 

10 as an open Government data asset.’’. 

11 SEC. 3. GUIDANCE, IMPLEMENTATION, REPORTING, AND 

12 REVIEW. 

13 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

14 (1) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com15 mittees’’ means the Committee on Oversight and Re16 form of the House of Representatives and the Com17 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af18 fairs of the Senate; 

19 (2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 

20 the Office of Management and Budget; 

21 (3) the term ‘‘program’’ has the meaning given 

22 that term in section 1122(a)(1) of title 31, United 

23 States Code, as amended by section 2 of this Act; 


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1 (4) the term ‘‘program activity’’ has the mean2 ing given that term in section 1115(h) of title 31, 

3 United States Code; and 

4 (5) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 

5 of the Treasury. 

6 (b) PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND RECONCILING

7 PROGRAM DEFINITIONS.—Not later than 180 days after 

8 the date of enactment of this Act, the Director, in con9 sultation with the Secretary, shall submit to the appro10 priate congressional committees a report that— 

11 (1) includes a plan that— 

12 (A) discusses how making available on a 

13 website the information required under sub14 section (a) of section 1122 of title 31, United 

15 States Code, as amended by section 2, will le16 verage existing data sources while avoiding du17 plicative or overlapping information in pre18 senting information relating to program activi19 ties and programs; 

20 (B) indicates how any gaps in data will be 

21 assessed and addressed; 

22 (C) indicates how the Director will display 

23 such data; and 

24 (D) discusses how the Director will expand 

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1 gram activities to incorporate the information 

2 required under the amendments made by sec3 tion 2; 

4 (2) sets forth details regarding a pilot program, 

5 developed in accordance with best practices for effec6 tive pilot programs— 

7 (A) to develop and implement a functional 

8 program inventory that could be limited in 

9 scope; and 

10 (B) under which the information required 

11 under the amendments made by section 2 with 

12 respect to program activities shall be made 

13 available on the website required under section 

14 1122(a) of title 31, United States Code; 

15 (3) establishes an implementation timeline 

16 for— 

17 (A) gathering and building program activ18 ity information; 

19 (B) developing and implementing the pilot 

20 program; 

21 (C) seeking and responding to stakeholder 

22 comments; 

23 (D) developing and presenting findings 

24 from the pilot program to the appropriate con25 gressional committees; 


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1 (E) notifying the appropriate congressional 

2 committees regarding how program activities 

3 will be aggregated, disaggregated, or consoli4 dated as part of identifying programs; and 

5 (F) implementing a Governmentwide pro6 gram inventory through an iterative approach; 

7 and 

8 (4) includes recommendations, if any, to rec9 oncile the conflicting definitions of the term ‘‘pro10 gram’’ in relevant Federal statutes, as it relates to 

11 the purpose of this Act. 

12 (c) IMPLEMENTATION.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 

14 the date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall 

15 make available online all information required under 

16 the amendments made by section 2 with respect to 

17 all programs. 

18 (2) EXTENSIONS.—The Director may, based on 

19 an analysis of the costs of implementation, and after 

20 submitting to the appropriate congressional commit21 tees a notification of the action by the Director, ex22 tend the deadline for implementation under para23 graph (1) by not more than a total of 1 year. 

24 (d) REPORTING.—Not later than 2 years after the 

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1 formation required under the amendments made by sec2 tion 2 with respect to all programs, the Comptroller Gen3 eral of the United States shall submit to the appropriate 

4 congressional committees a report regarding the imple5 mentation of this Act and the amendments made by this 

6 Act, which shall— 

7 (1) review how the Director and agencies deter8 mined how to aggregate, disaggregate, or consolidate 

9 program activities to provide the most useful infor10 mation for an inventory of Government programs; 

11 (2) evaluate the extent to which the program 

12 inventory required under section 1122 of title 31, 

13 United States Code, as amended by this Act, pro14 vides useful information for transparency, decision15 making, and oversight; 

16 (3) evaluate the extent to which the program 

17 inventory provides a coherent picture of the scope of 

18 Federal investments in particular areas; and 

19 (4) include the recommendations of the Comp20 troller General, if any, for improving implementation 

21 of this Act and the amendments made by this Act. 

22 SEC. 4. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1122 of title 31, United 

24 States Code, is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (b), in the matter preceding 

2 paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘described in subsection 

3 (a)(2)(A)’’ after ‘‘the website’’ each place it appears; 

4 (2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding 

5 paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘described in subsection 

6 (a)(2)(A)’’ after ‘‘the website’’; and 

7 (3) in subsection (d)— 

8 (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 

9 ‘‘ON WEBSITE’’; and 

10 (B) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘on 

11 the website’’. 

12 (b) OTHER AMENDMENTS.— 

13 (1) Section 1115(a) of title 31, United States 

14 Code, is amended in the matter preceding paragraph 

15 (1) by striking ‘‘the website provided under’’ and in16 serting ‘‘a website described in’’. 

17 (2) Section 10 of the GPRA Modernization Act 

18 of 2010 (31 U.S.C. 1115 note) is amended— 

19 (A) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ‘‘the 

20 website described under’’ and inserting ‘‘a 

21 website described in’’; and 

22 (B) in subsection (b)— 

23 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the 

24 website described under’’ and inserting ‘‘a 

25 website described in’’; and 


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1 (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘the 

2 website as required under’’ and inserting 

3 ‘‘a website described in’’. 

4 (3) Section 1120(a)(5) of title 31, United 

5 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the website de6 scribed under’’ and inserting ‘‘a website described 

7 in’’. 

8 (4) Section 1126(b)(2)(E) of title 31, United 

9 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the website of 

10 the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to’’ 

11 and inserting ‘‘a website described in’’. 

12 (5) Section 3512(a)(1) of title 31, United 

13 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the website de14 scribed under’’ and inserting ‘‘a website described 

15 in’’. 

16 SEC. 5. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

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

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

19 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

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

21 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. 

Passed the House of Representatives February 5, 

2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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