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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6569 
To include certain executive and judicial actions in the baseline calculation 
by the Congressional Budget Office, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 10, 2025 
Mr. ESTES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Budget 
A BILL 
To include certain executive and judicial actions in the base-
line calculation by the Congressional Budget Office, 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 ‘‘Executive Action Cost 
Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVING BASELINE DATA BY INCLUDING EXECU-
TIVE AND JUDICIAL ACTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 257 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
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U.S.C. 907) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL ACTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Unless directed otherwise 
by the chairs of the Committees on the Budget of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, any 
calculation of the baseline and any update of the 
baseline included in a report required under section 
202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(2 U.S.C. 602(e)(1)) shall include the budgetary ef-
fects of any judicial action and any executive action 
(including any proposed rule, final rule, executive 
order, or memorandum) consistent with scorekeeping 
practices agreed to by the Director of the Congres-
sional Budget Office and the Committees on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) EXECUTIVE ACTION DOCUMENTATION RE-
QUIREMENT.—With respect to an executive action 
described in paragraph (1), each department, agen-
cy, establishment, or regulatory agency or commis-
sion that promulgates, issues, announces, or imple-
ments any such executive action shall, consistent 
with the requirements under section 201(d) of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
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Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 601(d)) and not later than 
10 days after the date any such executive action 
goes into effect, provide to the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office a list that describes— 
‘‘(A) all written documentation with re-
spect to the implementation of the executive ac-
tion; 
‘‘(B) any implementation guidance for 
those impacted by the executive action, includ-
ing any guidance for internal and external per-
sonnel, offices, other entities or individuals, or 
private parties; and 
‘‘(C) any other information relevant to the 
analyses required by this subsection, including 
relevant data, as determined appropriate by the 
Director.’’. 
(b) 
SEPARATE
TABLE
IN
REPORT.—Section 
202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 602(e)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘To the extent practicable, the report and any 
update to the report shall include a table of any judicial 
action and any executive action described in section 257(f) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 that was issued on or after the date of the 
last publication of the report or the most recent update 
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to the report (as the case may be) if the Director estimates 
the judicial action or the executive action has budgetary 
effects of at least $50,000,000,000 during the current 
year, budget year, and the nine years following the budget 
year. Any proposed executive action shall be assumed to 
be final for purposes of determining whether to include 
the proposed action in the table and shall only be included 
consistent with the scorekeeping guidelines determined 
under section 252(d)(5) of such Act.’’. 
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