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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5301 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.5301

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four

                                 An Act

 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require agencies to include a 
list of outdated or duplicative reporting requirements in annual budget 
                 justifications, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 
2024''.
SEC. 2. SUNSETS FOR AGENCY REPORTS.
    (a) In General.--Section 1125 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended--
        (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
        (2) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the 
    following:
    ``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
        ``(1) Budget justification materials.--The term `budget 
    justification materials' has the meaning given the term in section 
    3(b)(2) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act 
    of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public Law 109-282).
        ``(2) Plan or report.--The term `plan or report' means any plan 
    or report submitted to Congress, any committee of Congress, or 
    subcommittee thereof, by not less than 1 agency--
            ``(A) in accordance with Federal law; or
            ``(B) at the direction or request of a congressional 
        report.
        ``(3) Recurring plan or report.--The term `recurring plan or 
    report' means a plan or report submitted on a recurring basis.
        ``(4) Relevant congressional committee.--The term `relevant 
    congressional committee'--
            ``(A) means a congressional committee to which a recurring 
        plan or report is required to be submitted; and
            ``(B) does not include any plan or report that is required 
        to be submitted solely to the Committee on Armed Services of 
        the House of Representatives or the Senate.
    ``(b) Agency Identification of Unnecessary Reports.--
        ``(1) In general.--The head of each agency shall include in the 
    budget justification materials of the agency the following:
            ``(A) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the following:
                ``(i) A list of each recurring plan or report submitted 
            by the agency.
                ``(ii) An identification of whether the recurring plan 
            or report listed in clause (i) was included in the most 
            recent report issued by the Clerk of the House of 
            Representatives concerning the reports that any agency is 
            required by law or directed or requested by a committee 
            report to make to Congress, any committee of Congress, or 
            subcommittee thereof.
                ``(iii) If applicable, the unique alphanumeric 
            identifier for the recurring plan or report as required by 
            section 7243(b)(1)(C)(vii) of the James M. Inhofe National 
            Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 
            117-263).
                ``(iv) The identification of any recurring plan or 
            report the head of the agency determines to be outdated or 
            duplicative.
            ``(B) With respect to each recurring plan or report 
        identified in subparagraph (A)(iv), the following:
                ``(i) A recommendation on whether to sunset, modify, 
            consolidate, or reduce the frequency of the submission of 
            the recurring plan or report.
                ``(ii) A citation to each provision of law or directive 
            or request in a congressional report that requires or 
            requests the submission of the recurring plan or report.
                ``(iii) A list of the relevant congressional committees 
            for the recurring plan or report.
            ``(C) A justification explaining, with respect to each 
        recommendation described in subparagraph (B)(i) relating to a 
        recurring plan or report--
                ``(i) why the head of the agency made the 
            recommendation, which may include an estimate of the 
            resources expended by the agency to prepare and submit the 
            recurring plan or report; and
                ``(ii) the understanding of the head of the agency of 
            the purpose of the recurring plan or report.
        ``(2) Agency consultation.--
            ``(A) In general.--In preparing the list required under 
        paragraph (1)(A), if, in submitting a recurring plan or report, 
        an agency is required to coordinate or consult with another 
        agency or entity, the head of the agency submitting the 
        recurring plan or report shall consult with the head of each 
        agency or entity with whom consultation or coordination is 
        required.
            ``(B) Inclusion in list.--If, after a consultation under 
        subparagraph (A), the head of each agency or entity consulted 
        under that subparagraph agrees that a recurring plan or report 
        is outdated or duplicative, the head of the agency required to 
        submit the recurring plan or report shall--
                ``(i) include the recurring plan or report in the list 
            described in paragraph (1)(A); and
                ``(ii) identify each agency or entity with which the 
            head of the agency is required to coordinate or consult in 
            submitting the recurring plan or report.
            ``(C) Disagreement.--If the head of any agency or entity 
        consulted under subparagraph (A) does not agree that a 
        recurring plan or report is outdated or duplicative, the head 
        of the agency required to submit the recurring plan or report 
        shall not include the recurring plan or report in the list 
        described in paragraph (1)(A).
        ``(3) Government-wide or multi-agency plan and report 
    submissions.--With respect to a recurring plan or report required 
    to be submitted by not less than 2 agencies, the Director of the 
    Office of Management and Budget shall--
            ``(A) determine whether the requirement to submit the 
        recurring plan or report is outdated or duplicative; and
            ``(B) make recommendations to Congress accordingly.
        ``(4) Plan and report submissions conformity to the access to 
    congressionally mandated reports act.--With respect to an agency 
    recommendation, citation, or justification made under subparagraph 
    (B) or (C) of paragraph (1) or a recommendation by the Director of 
    the Office of Management and Budget under paragraph (3), the agency 
    or Director, as applicable, shall also provide this information to 
    the Director of the Government Publishing Office in conformity with 
    the agency submission requirements under section 7244(a) of the 
    James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
    2023 (Public Law 117-263; chapter 41 of title 44 note) in 
    conformity with guidance issued by the Director of the Office of 
    Management and Budget under section 7244(b) of such Act.
    ``(c) Rule of Construction on Agency Requirements.--Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to exempt the head of an agency from a 
requirement to submit a recurring plan or report.''; and
        (3) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by striking ``in the 
    budget of the United States Government, as provided by section 
    1105(a)(37)'' and inserting ``in the budget justification materials 
    of each agency''.
    (b) Budget Contents.--Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by striking paragraph (39).
    (c) Conformity to the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports 
Act.--
        (1) Amendment.--Subsections (a) and (b) of section 7244 of the 
    James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
    2023 (Public Law 117-263; chapter 41 of title 44, United States 
    Code, note), are amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Submission of Electronic Copies of Reports.--Not earlier than 
30 days or later than 60 days after the date on which a congressionally 
mandated report is submitted to either House of Congress or to any 
committee of Congress or subcommittee thereof, the head of the Federal 
agency submitting the congressionally mandated report shall submit to 
the Director the information required under subparagraphs (A) through 
(D) of section 7243(b)(1) with respect to the congressionally mandated 
report. Notwithstanding section 7246, nothing in this subtitle shall 
relieve a Federal agency of any other requirement to publish the 
congressionally mandated report on the online portal of the Federal 
agency or otherwise submit the congressionally mandated report to 
Congress or specific committees of Congress, or subcommittees thereof.
    ``(b) Guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this subsection and periodically thereafter as 
appropriate, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in 
consultation with the Director, shall issue guidance to agencies on the 
implementation of this subtitle as well as the requirements of section 
1125(b) of title 31, United States Code.''.
        (2) Updated omb guidance.--Not later than 180 days after the 
    date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of 
    Management and Budget shall issue updated guidance to agencies to 
    ensure that the requirements under subsections (a) and (b) of 
    section 1125 of title 31, United States Code, as amended by this 
    Act, for agency submissions of recommendations and justifications 
    for plans and reports to sunset, modify, consolidate, or reduce the 
    frequency of the submission of are also submitted as a separate 
    attachment in conformity with the agency submission requirements of 
    electronic copies of reports submitted by agencies under section 
    7244(a) of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act 
    for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; chapter 41 of title 44, 
    United States Code, note) for publication on the online portal 
    established under section 7243 of such Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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