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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4094 
To direct certain Federal agencies to report to Congress on whether such 
agencies have implemented guidance from the Office of Management 
and Budget with respect to the disclosure of personal information, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2025 
Ms. BROWN (for herself and Ms. MACE) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To direct certain Federal agencies to report to Congress 
on whether such agencies have implemented guidance 
from the Office of Management and Budget with respect 
to the disclosure of personal information, 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 ‘‘Electronic Consent Ac-
countability Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Government Accountability Office re-
ports that Federal agencies need to fully implement 
Office of Management and Budget guidance and re-
quirements related to the disclosure of personal in-
formation. 
(2) The Creating Advanced Streamlined Elec-
tronic Services for Constituents Act of 2019 
(CASES Act; Public Law 116–50) required the Of-
fice of Management and Budget to issue guidance to 
Federal agencies that requires— 
(A) acceptance of electronic identity proof-
ing and authentication; 
(B) creation of a template for electronic 
consent and access forms to be posted on the 
websites of such agencies; and 
(C) acceptance of electronic consent from 
individuals after the identification of such indi-
viduals has been properly authenticated. 
(3) On November 12, 2020, the Office of Man-
agement and Budget issued guidance in the memo-
randum of the Office of Management and Budget 
designated M–21–04 that included the required ele-
ments described in the CASES Act. 
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(4) Federal agencies were instructed to imple-
ment the requirements described in such guidance 
by November 2021. 
SEC. 3. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 
GUIDANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each agency 
specified in subsection (b) shall submit to the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of 
Representatives a report that includes— 
(1) whether such head has implemented the 
covered responsibilities; and 
(2) if such head has not implemented the cov-
ered responsibilities— 
(A) a justification for why such head has 
not implemented such responsibilities; 
(B) the planned timeline for such head to 
implement such responsibilities; and 
(C) the steps such head is taking to imple-
ment such responsibilities. 
(b) SPECIFIED AGENCIES.—The agencies specified in 
this subsection are the following: 
(1) The Department of Agriculture. 
(2) The Department of Defense. 
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(3) The Department of Health and Human 
Services. 
(4) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(5) The Department of the Interior. 
(6) The Department of Justice. 
(7) The Department of Labor. 
(8) The Department of State. 
(9) The Department of Transportation. 
(10) The Department of the Treasury. 
(11) The Department of Veterans Affairs. 
(12) The Environmental Protection Agency. 
(13) The Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission. 
(14) The National Archives and Records Ad-
ministration. 
(15) The Office of Personnel Management. 
(16) The Social Security Administration. 
(c) COVERED RESPONSIBILITIES DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘covered responsibilities’’ means the 
agency responsibilities described in the memorandum of 
the Office of Management and Budget designated as M– 
21–04, relating to ‘‘Modernizing Access to and Consent 
for Disclosure of Records Subject to the Privacy Act’’, and 
issued November 12, 2020. 
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