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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4894 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 29, 2019 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself and Mr. COLLINS of Georgia) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Re-
form, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-
parency 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 Representa-
tives 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 2019’’. 
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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 infor-
mation 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, in-
cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 
account, the amount— 
‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 
‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 
‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 
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‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re-
sources; 
‘‘(B) from which accounts and in what 
amount— 
‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 
each program activity; and 
‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro-
gram 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 ‘agency’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 101 of title 
31, United States Code; and 
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‘‘(ii) the term ‘budget justification 
materials’ means the annual budget jus-
tification materials of an agency that are 
submitted to Congress in support of the 
budget of the agency, in conjunction with 
the budget of the United States Govern-
ment submitted under section 1105(a) of 
title 31, United States Code, but does not 
include budget justification materials that 
are classified. 
‘‘(B) INFORMATION.—The information to 
be posted shall include the budget justification 
materials of each agency— 
‘‘(i) for the second fiscal year begin-
ning 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. 
‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate-
rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 
‘‘(i) in an open format machine read-
able and text searchable; 
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‘‘(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 prac-
ticable; and 
‘‘(iii) in a structured data format, to 
the extent practicable. 
‘‘(D) DEADLINE.—The budget justification 
materials required to be posted under subpara-
graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 
weeks after the date on which the budget jus-
tification materials are first submitted to Con-
gress. 
‘‘(E) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 
in this paragraph shall be construed to author-
ize an agency to destroy any budget justifica-
tion 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 an internet 
website, and continuously update, a tabular list for each 
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fiscal year of each agency that submits to Congress budget 
justification materials in support of the budget of the 
agency, 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 agen-
cy are first submitted to Congress; 
‘‘(D) the date on which the budget justification 
materials of the agency are posted online under sec-
tion 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 submitted to Congress 
are published on the website of the agency; and 
‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the infor-
mation 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 Ac-
countability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 
U.S.C. 6101 note) in a structured data format. 
‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits to Congress budg-
et justification materials in support of the budget of the 
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agency shall make the materials available on the website 
of the agency. 
‘‘(B) The Director of Office of Management and 
Budget shall establish best practices for agencies relating 
to making available materials under subparagraph (A)(i), 
which shall include guidelines for 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 Office of Management and 
Budget maintains a public website that contains the budg-
et of the United States Government submitted under sub-
section (a) and any related materials, such website shall 
also contain a link to the tabular list required under para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘budget justification 
materials’ has the meaning given that term in section 3 
of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 
Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).’’. 
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