Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act

To provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among them, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act 2. Agency requirements relating to annual report on the cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among programs (a) Requirement To identify and describe programs On an annual basis, for purposes of the report required by subsection (b), the head of each agency shall— (1) identify and describe every program administered by the agency; (2) for each such program— (A) determine the total administrative costs of the program; (B) determine the expenditures for services for the program; (C) estimate the number of clients served by the program and beneficiaries who received assistance under the program (if applicable); and (D) estimate— (i) the number of full-time employees who administer the program; and (ii) the number of full-time equivalents (whose salary is paid in part or full by the Federal Government through a grant or contract, a subaward of a grant or contract, a cooperative agreement, or another form of financial award or assistance) who assist in administering the program; and (3) identify programs within the agency with duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and allowable uses of funds , including any finding of duplication or overlap identified by internal review, an Inspector General, the Government Accountability Office, or other report to the agency about the program (b) Report Not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, the head of each agency shall create a link on the homepage of the official public website of the agency to a report containing the following: (1) Identification and description of programs The information required under subsection (a) with respect to the preceding fiscal year. (2) Performance reviews The latest performance reviews (including the program performance reports required under section 1116 (3) Improper payment information For all programs and activities that may be susceptible to significant improper payments, as identified by the head of the agency under section 2(a) of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 ( 31 U.S.C. 321 (4) Expired grant funding The total amount of undisbursed grant funding remaining in grant accounts for which the period of availability to the grantee has expired. (5) Recommendations Such recommendations as the head of the agency considers appropriate— (A) to consolidate programs within the agency that are duplicative or overlapping; (B) to eliminate waste and inefficiency; and (C) to terminate lower priority, outdated, and unnecessary programs and initiatives. (c) Relationship to catalog of domestic financial assistance With respect to the requirements of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2)(B), the head of an agency may use the same information provided in the Catalog of Domestic Financial Assistance if applicable. (d) Format Each agency shall make reports required by subsection (b) available in a searchable, machine-readable format, and shall expend no funds for the printing of such reports, except when providing such documents to the Congress. 3. Office of Management and Budget requirements relating to annual report on the cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among programs (a) Report by Office of Management and Budget Not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall publish on the official public website of the Office of Management and Budget a report containing the following: (1) Identification of duplicative programs An identification of programs across agencies with duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and allowable uses of funds. (2) Recommendations Such recommendations as the Director considers appropriate— (A) to consolidate programs across agencies that are duplicative or overlapping; (B) to eliminate waste and inefficiency; and (C) to terminate lower priority, outdated, and unnecessary programs and initiatives. (b) Relationship to president’s budget With respect to the requirements of subsection (a)(2), the Director may use the same information provided in the President’s annual budget submission, if applicable. (c) Database required The Director shall maintain a database of information— (1) used to create the report required by subsection (a); and (2) obtained through meeting the requirements of section 21 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 31 U.S.C. 712 4. Government Accountability Office requirements relating to identification, consolidation, and elimination of duplicative Government programs Section 21 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 31 U.S.C. 712 (a) (b) The Comptroller General shall maintain and provide regular updates, on not less than an annual basis to a publicly available website that tracks the status of responses by Departments and the Congress to suggested actions that the Comptroller General has previously identified in annual reports under subsection (a). The status of these suggested actions shall be tracked for an appropriate period to be determined by the Comptroller General. The requirements of this subsection shall apply during the effective period of subsection (a). . 5. Definitions In this Act: (1) Administrative costs The term administrative costs Public Law 111–85 31 U.S.C. 1105 (A) costs incurred by the agency as well as costs incurred by grantees, subgrantees, and other recipients of funds from a grant program or other program administered by the agency; and (B) expenses related to personnel salaries and benefits, property management, travel, program management, promotion, reviews and audits, case management, and communication about, promotion of, and outreach for programs and program activities administered by the agency. (2) Services The term services (3) Agency The term agency section 551(1) (4) Performance indicator, performance goal, output measure The terms performance indicator performance goal output measure section 1115 (5) Program The term program 6. Classified information Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the disclosure of classified information. 7. Regulations and implementation (a) Regulations Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prescribe regulations to implement this Act. (b) Implementation This Act shall be implemented not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. February 21, 2014 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

Summary: Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act - (Sec. 2) Sets forth additional information relating to a federal program that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is required to include on its website and update at least annually, including: (1) the total administrative cost of the program and the expenditures for services for the program for the previous fiscal year; (2) an estimate of the number of clients served by the program and beneficiaries who received assistance under the program for the previous fiscal year; (3) an estimate, for the previous fiscal year, of the number of full-time federal employees who administer the program and the number of full-time employees whose salary is paid in part or in full by the federal government through a grant or contract or other form of financial assistance; (4) an identification of the specific statute that authorizes the program and whether such authorization is expired; (5) any finding of duplication or overlap; and (6) any program performance reviews for such program. Requires the OMB Director, not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, to publish on the OMB website the total amount of undisbursed grant funding remaining in grant accounts for which the period of availability to the grantee has expired. (Sec. 3) Amends the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 to require the Comptroller General (GAO) to maintain and provide regular annual updates to a publicly available website that tracks the status of agency responses to recommendations by the Comptroller General for identifying duplicative government programs. (Sec. 4) Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the disclosure of classified information. (Sec. 5) Requires the OMB Director to implement this Act not later than one year after its enactment. Prohibits the authorization of additional funds to carry out the requirements of this Act.