I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4742 
To require the Comptroller General of the United States to review certain 
legislation in order to identify potential risks of duplication of and 
overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2021 
Ms. BOURDEAUX (for herself and Mr. CLOUD) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in 
addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Rules, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Comptroller General of the United States 
to review certain legislation in order to identify potential 
risks of duplication of and overlap with existing Federal 
programs, offices, and initiatives. 
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 ‘‘Duplication Scoring 
Act of 2021’’. 
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SEC. 2. ASSESSMENTS OF REPORTED BILLS BY GAO. 
Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i)(1) In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘covered bill or joint resolution’ 
means a bill or joint resolution of a public character 
reported by any committee of Congress (including 
the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on the Budget of either House); 
‘‘(B) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office; 
‘‘(C) the term ‘existing duplicative or overlap-
ping feature’ means an element of the Federal Gov-
ernment previously identified as an area of duplica-
tion, overlap, or fragmentation in a GAO duplication 
and overlap report; 
‘‘(D) the term ‘GAO duplication and overlap re-
port’ means each annual report prepared by the 
Comptroller General under section 21 of Public Law 
111–139 (31 U.S.C. 712 note); and 
‘‘(E) the term ‘new duplicative or overlapping 
feature’ means a new Federal program, office, or 
initiative created under a covered bill or joint resolu-
tion that would duplicate or overlap with an existing 
duplicative or overlapping feature. 
‘‘(2) For each covered bill or joint resolution— 
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‘‘(A) the Comptroller General shall, to the ex-
tent practicable— 
‘‘(i) determine the extent to which the cov-
ered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a 
new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if 
the risk so warrants, identify— 
‘‘(I) the name of the new Federal pro-
gram, office, or initiative; 
‘‘(II) the section of the covered bill or 
joint resolution at which the new duplica-
tive or overlapping feature is established; 
and 
‘‘(III) the GAO duplication and over-
lap report in which the existing duplicative 
or overlapping feature is identified; 
‘‘(ii) submit the information described in 
clause (i) to the Director and the committee 
that reported the covered bill or joint resolu-
tion; and 
‘‘(iii) publish the information prepared 
under clause (i) on the website of the Govern-
ment Accountability Office; and 
‘‘(B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director 
may include the information submitted by the Comp-
troller General under subparagraph (A)(ii) as a sup-
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plement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint 
resolution to which the information pertains sub-
mitted by the Director under section 402 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653). 
‘‘(3) If the Comptroller General has not submitted 
to the Director the information for a covered bill or joint 
resolution under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) on the date on 
which the Director submits the estimate for the covered 
bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains 
under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 653), the Director may, on the date on 
which the Comptroller General submits the information to 
the Director, prepare and submit to each applicable com-
mittee the information as a supplement to the estimate 
for the covered bill or joint resolution.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendment made by this Act shall take effect 
on the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 60 days after the date on 
which the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget next, in accordance with section 1122(a) of 
title 31, United States Code, updates the informa-
tion made available on the website required under 
that section; or 
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(2) the date on which a new Congress begins 
after the date that is 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
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