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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2101 
To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants submitting duplicative 
or fraudulent applications, to require the Director of Office of Manage-
ment and Budget to establish a tracking and deconfliction system for 
Federal grant applications, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 14, 2025 
Mrs. BICE (for herself and Mr. SELF) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants sub-
mitting duplicative or fraudulent applications, to require 
the Director of Office of Management and Budget to 
establish a tracking and deconfliction system for Federal 
grant applications, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Duplicative Grant Con-
solidation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FEDERAL GRANTS TO 
APPLICANTS SUBMITTING DUPLICATIVE OR 
FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS. 
(a) NO AWARD ON BASIS OF DUPLICATIVE APPLICA-
TION.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided for 
under subparagraph (B), the head of an execu-
tive agency may not award a grant to an appli-
cant determined by the head of the agency or 
the Inspector General of the agency to have re-
ceived another grant from the head of another 
executive agency for the same or identical pur-
pose. 
(B) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition under 
subparagraph (A) related to the award of 
grants for the same or identical purposes shall 
not apply to an applicant that is an institution 
of higher education. 
(2) DETERMINATION.—In the case that the 
head of an executive agency or the Inspector General 
of the agency determines that an applicant for a 
grant has submitted an application for another 
grant from another executive agency for the same or 
identical purpose, the heads of such agencies shall 
jointly determine which agency is the appropriate 
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agency to award the grant, if such grant is to be 
awarded to such applicant. 
(b) NO AWARD ON BASIS OF FRAUDULENT APPLICA-
TION.—The head of an executive agency may not award 
a grant to an applicant determined by the head of the 
agency or the Inspector General of the agency to have sub-
mitted a fraudulent application for such grant. 
SEC. 3. TRACKING AND DECONFLICTION SYSTEM FOR FED-
ERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall make available 
to the heads of executive agencies, including the Inspec-
tors General of such agencies, an electronic system 
through which the head of an executive agency may deter-
mine before awarding a grant, or through which an In-
spector General of an executive agency may determine in 
conducting an audit or investigation, whether any appli-
cant for such grant has received, or submitted an applica-
tion to the head of another executive agency for, another 
grant for the same or identical purpose. 
(b) CONTENTS OF SYSTEM.—The system shall con-
tain at a minimum, the name of the awardee, the principal 
investigator, the award period, agency point of contact, 
and an abstract. 
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(c) ESSENTIALLY EQUIVALENT WORK.—The Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall estab-
lish an electronic system which contains information for 
all federal research awards through which the head of an 
executive agency may determine before awarding a grant, 
or through which an Inspector General of an executive 
agency may determine in conducting an audit or investiga-
tion, whether— 
(1) substantially the same research is proposed 
for funding in more than one grant application sub-
mitted to the same Federal agency; 
(2) substantially the same research is submitted 
to two or more different Federal agencies for review 
and funding consideration; or 
(3) a specific research objective and the re-
search design for accomplishing an objective are the 
same or closely related in two or more proposals or 
awards, regardless of the funding source. 
SEC. 4. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF LEVERAGING ARTIFI-
CIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY DUPLICA-
TIVE FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 
The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Di-
rector of the National Science Foundation, and the Direc-
tor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
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