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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 724 
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 
JANUARY 24, 2025 
Mr. DAVIDSON (for himself, Mr. BARR, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. 
SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, 
Mr. MILLS, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. OGLES, Mr. PALMER, Mr. 
PERRY, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. 
WEBER of Texas, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. CLYDE, Ms. GREENE 
of Georgia, Mr. GILL of Texas, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. FALLON, 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. HARRIS of North Carolina, Mr. 
MCGUIRE, Ms. FEDORCHAK, Mr. CLINE, Mr. FRY, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. 
ROSE, and Mr. MASSIE) 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CBO Show Your Work 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 
MODELS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Director’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) PUBLICATION OF MODELS AND DATA.—The Di-
rector of the Congressional Budget Office shall make 
available to Members of Congress and make publicly avail-
able on the website of the Congressional Budget Office— 
‘‘(1) each fiscal model, policy model, and data 
preparation routine used by the Congressional Budg-
et Office in estimating the costs and other fiscal, so-
cial, or economic effects of legislation, including esti-
mates prepared under subsection (a); 
‘‘(2) any update of a model or routine described 
in paragraph (1); 
‘‘(3) subject to paragraph (4), for each estimate 
of the costs and other fiscal effects of legislation, in-
cluding estimates prepared under subsection (a), the 
data, programs, models, assumptions, and other de-
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tails of the computations used by the Congressional 
Budget Office in preparing the estimate, in a man-
ner sufficient to permit replication by individuals not 
employed by the Congressional Budget Office; and 
‘‘(4) for any data that is required not to be dis-
closed by the Congressional Budget Office— 
‘‘(A) a complete list of all data variables 
for such data; 
‘‘(B) descriptive statistics for all data vari-
ables for such data (including averages, stand-
ard deviations, number of observations, and cor-
relations to other variables), to the extent that 
the descriptive statistics do not violate the rule 
against disclosure; 
‘‘(C) a reference to the statute requiring 
that the data not be disclosed; and 
‘‘(D) information regarding how to contact 
the individual or entity who has unrestricted ac-
cess to the data.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall apply on and after the date that is 
6 months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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