116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3830 
AN ACT 
To provide taxpayers with an improved understanding of 
Government programs through the disclosure of cost, 
performance, and areas of duplication among them, lever-
age existing data to achieve a functional Federal pro-
gram inventory, 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 ‘‘Taxpayers Right-To- 
Know Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INVENTORY OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. 
Section 1122(a) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; 
(2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so re-
designated, the following: 
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘Federal financial assist-
ance’ has the meaning given that term under 
section 7501; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘open Government data 
asset’ has the meaning given that term under 
section 3502 of title 44; 
‘‘(C) the term ‘program’ means a single 
program activity or an organized set of aggre-
gated, disaggregated, or consolidated program 
activities by one or more agencies directed to-
ward a common purpose or goal; and 
‘‘(D) the term ‘program activity’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 1115(h).’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated—
(A) by striking ‘‘IN GENERAL.—Not later 
than October 1, 2012, the Office of Manage-
ment 
and 
Budget 
shall’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘WEBSITE
AND
PROGRAM
INVENTORY.—The 
Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘that includes the information required under 
subsections (b) and (c)’’ after ‘‘a single 
website’’; and 
(C) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(B) include on the website described in 
subparagraph (A), or another appropriate Fed-
eral Government website where related informa-
tion is made available, as determined by the Di-
rector— 
‘‘(i) a program inventory that shall 
identify each program; and 
‘‘(ii) for each program identified in 
the program inventory, the information re-
quired under paragraph (3); 
‘‘(C) make the information in the program 
inventory required under subparagraph (B)
available as an open Government data asset; 
and 
‘‘(D) at a minimum— 
‘‘(i) update the information required 
to be included on the single website under 
subparagraph (A) on a quarterly basis; 
and 
‘‘(ii) update the program inventory re-
quired under subparagraph (B) on an an-
nual basis.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘described under paragraph (1) 
shall include’’ and inserting ‘‘identified in the 
program inventory required under paragraph 
(2)(B) shall include’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(C) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘and,’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) for each program activity that is part 
of a program— 
‘‘(i) a description of the purposes of 
the program activity and the contribution
of the program activity to the mission and 
goals of the agency; 
‘‘(ii) a consolidated view for the cur-
rent fiscal year and each of the 2 fiscal 
years before the current fiscal year of— 
‘‘(I) the amount appropriated; 
‘‘(II) the amount obligated; and 
‘‘(III) the amount outlayed; 
‘‘(iii) to the extent practicable and 
permitted by law, links to any related eval-
uation, assessment, or program perform-
ance review by the agency, an inspector 
general, or the Government Accountability 
Office (including program performance re-
ports required under section 1116), and 
other related evidence assembled in re-
sponse to implementation of the Founda-
tions for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115–435; 132 Stat. 
5529); 
‘‘(iv) an identification of the statutes 
that authorize the program activity or the 
authority under which the program activity 
was created or operates;