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 ‘‘Taxpayers Right-To- 
Know Act’’. 
SEC. 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 re-
port required by subsection (b), the head of each agency 
shall— 
(1) identify and describe every program admin-
istered 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— 
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(i) the number of full-time employees 
who administer the program; and 
(ii) the number of full-time equiva-
lents (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 assist-
ance) who assist in administering the pro-
gram; and 
(3) identify programs within the agency with 
duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and al-
lowable uses of funds, including any finding of du-
plication or overlap identified by internal review, an 
Inspector General, the Government Accountability Of-
fice, or other report to the agency about the program. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than February 1 of each fis-
cal 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 PRO-
GRAMS.—The information required under subsection 
(a) with respect to the preceding fiscal year. 
(2) PERFORMANCE REVIEWS.—The latest per-
formance reviews (including the program perform-
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ance reports required under section 1116 of title 31, 
United States Code) of each program of the agency 
identified under subsection (a)(1), including per-
formance indicators, performance goals, output 
measures, and other specific metrics used to review 
the program and how the program performed on 
each. 
(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 Im-
proper Payments Information Act of 2002 (31 
U.S.C. 321 note), the latest improper payment rate 
and the total estimated amount of improper pay-
ments during the preceding fiscal year, including 
fraudulent payments and overpayments. 
(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 recommenda-
tions as the head of the agency considers appro-
priate— 
(A) to consolidate programs within the 
agency that are duplicative or overlapping; 
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(B) to eliminate waste and inefficiency; 
and 
(C) to terminate lower priority, outdated, 
and unnecessary programs and initiatives. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO CATALOG OF DOMESTIC FI-
NANCIAL 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 re-
quired by subsection (b) available in a searchable, ma-
chine-readable format, and shall expend no funds for the 
printing of such reports, except when providing such docu-
ments to the Congress. 
SEC. 3. OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET REQUIRE-
MENTS RELATING TO ANNUAL REPORT ON 
THE COST AND PERFORMANCE OF GOVERN-
MENT PROGRAMS AND AREAS OF DUPLICA-
TION 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 fol-
lowing: 
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(1) IDENTIFICATION
OF
DUPLICATIVE
PRO-
GRAMS.—An identification of programs across agen-
cies with duplicative or overlapping missions, serv-
ices, and allowable uses of funds. 
(2) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Such recommenda-
tions as the Director considers appropriate— 
(A) to consolidate programs across agen-
cies 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 Di-
rector may use the same information provided in the 
President’s annual budget submission, if applicable. 
(c) DATABASE REQUIRED.—The Director shall main-
tain a database of information— 
(1) used to create the report required by sub-
section (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 note). 
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