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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1492 

To require the Congressional Budget Office to make publicly available the 

fiscal and mathematical models, data, and other details of computations 

used in cost analysis and scoring. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 9, 2023 

Mr. DAVIDSON (for himself, Mr. PALMER, Mr. NORMAN, and Mr. PERRY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Budget 

A BILL 

To require the Congressional Budget Office to make publicly 

available the fiscal and mathematical models, data, and 

other details of computations used in cost analysis and 

scoring. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CBO Show Your Work 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 

2 MODELS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402 of the Congressional 

4 Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) is amended— 

5 (1) by striking ‘‘The Director’’ and inserting 

6 the following: 

7 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director’’; and 

8 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(b) PUBLICATION OF MODELS AND DATA.—The Di10 rector of the Congressional Budget Office shall make 

11 available to Members of Congress and make publicly avail12 able on the website of the Congressional Budget Office— 

13 ‘‘(1) each fiscal model, policy model, and data 

14 preparation routine used by the Congressional Budg15 et Office in estimating the costs and other fiscal, so16 cial, or economic effects of legislation, including esti17 mates prepared under subsection (a); 

18 ‘‘(2) any update of a model or routine described 

19 in paragraph (1); 

20 ‘‘(3) subject to paragraph (4), for each estimate 

21 of the costs and other fiscal effects of legislation, in22 cluding estimates prepared under subsection (a), the 

23 data, programs, models, assumptions, and other de24 tails of the computations used by the Congressional 

25 Budget Office in preparing the estimate, in a manVerDate Sep 11 2014 04:43 Mar 22, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1492.IH H1492

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1 ner sufficient to permit replication by individuals not 

2 employed by the Congressional Budget Office; and 

3 ‘‘(4) for any data that is required not to be dis4 closed by the Congressional Budget Office— 

5 ‘‘(A) a complete list of all data variables 

6 for such data; 

7 ‘‘(B) descriptive statistics for all data vari8 ables for such data (including averages, stand9 ard deviations, number of observations, and cor10 relations to other variables), to the extent that 

11 the descriptive statistics do not violate the rule 

12 against disclosure; 

13 ‘‘(C) a reference to the statute requiring 

14 that the data not be disclosed; and 

15 ‘‘(D) information regarding how to contact 

16 the individual or entity who has unrestricted ac17 cess to the data.’’. 

18 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

19 subsection (a) shall apply on and after the date that is 

20 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act. 

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