Director of the Office of Grant Making and Congress and 
report annually thereafter on the implementation of the 
plan and performance of the agency in meeting the re-
quirements for the plan specified in subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. EXPANSION OF THE USE AND FUNCTIONALITY OF 
GRANTS.GOV. 
(a) TRANSFER TO OFFICE OF GRANT MAKING.—The 
Director of the Office of Grant Making shall be respon-
sible for maintaining Grants.gov. 
(b) REQUIREMENT TO POST ALL GRANTS.—All Fed-
eral grants, both formula and discretionary, from all 
grant-making agencies shall be posted on Grants.gov. 
(c) DUPLICATIVE HARD COPY APPLICATIONS NOT 
REQUIRED.—Grant applications in hard copy that are du-
plicative of applications submitted electronically shall not 
be required from grant applicants. 
(d) EXPANSION OF FUNCTIONALITY.—The Director 
of the Office of Grant Making shall ensure that Grants.gov 
is able to handle the following functions: 
(1) Finding grants. 
(2) Applying for grants. 
(3) Submitting and receiving grant applications. 
(4) Sending grant award notifications and other 
documents. 
VerDate Mar 15 2010 
02:46 Jul 20, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00010
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H5775.IH
H5775
smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with BILLS
(5) Submitting and receiving post-grant-award 
management reports. 
(6) Closeout tools related to grants. 
(7) Grant award tracking. 
(8) Training and technical assistance, as de-
scribed in subsection (f). 
(e) 
AVOIDANCE
OF
DUPLICATION
WITH 
USASPENDING.GOV.—The Director of the Office of Grant 
Making shall ensure that duplication of effort and dual 
systems related to online Federal grant activity are no 
longer in effect by merging USASpending.gov into 
Grants.gov. Other Federal agencies shall cooperate to the 
extent necessary to assist the Director in carrying out this 
subsection. 
(f) TRAINING
AND
OTHER
TECHNICAL
ASSIST-
ANCE.—The Director shall ensure that Grants.gov in-
cludes technical assistance information and resources, in-
cluding— 
(1) online or recorded training sessions con-
ducted by other Federal agencies; 
(2) online or recorded training sessions on how 
to use Grants.gov; and 
(3) such other technical assistance as the Direc-
tor considers appropriate. 
VerDate Mar 15 2010 
02:46 Jul 20, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00011
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H5775.IH
H5775
smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with BILLS
SEC. 6. ENDING CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIMITED TAX 
BENEFITS, AND LIMITED TARIFF BENEFITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 312 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) PROHIBITION ON CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, 
LIMITED TAX BENEFITS, AND LIMITED TARIFF BENE-
FITS.—(1) It shall not be in order in the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint res-
olution, or amendment thereto or conference report there-
on, if it or any accompanying report contains any congres-
sional earmark, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff ben-
efit. 
‘‘(2) As used in this subsection, the terms ‘congres-
sional earmark’, ‘limited tax benefit’, and ‘limited tariff 
benefit’ have the meanings given to such terms in clause 
9 of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representa-
tives.’’. 
(b) SUPER MAJORITY IN THE SENATE.—Subsections 
(c)(1) and (d)(2) of section 904 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 are each amended by inserting 
‘‘312(g),’’ after ‘‘310(d)(2),’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
VerDate Mar 15 2010 
02:46 Jul 20, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00012
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6301
E:\BILLS\H5775.IH
H5775
smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with BILLS