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Calendar No. 533 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4894 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-
parency Act of 2006, to require the budget justifications 
and appropriation requests of agencies be made publicly 
available. 
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 ‘‘Congressional Budget 
Justification Transparency Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS 
AND APPROPRIATION REQUESTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 
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109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘SEC. 3. FULL DISCLOSURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently than monthly 
when practicable, and in any event not less frequently than 
quarterly, the Secretary (in consultation with the Director 
and, with respect to information described in subsection 
(b)(2), the head of the applicable agency) shall ensure that 
updated information with respect to the information de-
scribed in subsection (b) is posted on the website estab-
lished under section 2. 
‘‘(b) INFORMATION TO BE POSTED.— 
‘‘(1) FUNDS.—For any funds made available to 
or expended by a Federal agency or component of a 
Federal agency, the information to be posted shall 
include— 
‘‘(A) for each appropriations account, in-
cluding an expired or unexpired appropriations 
account, the amount— 
‘‘(i) of budget authority appropriated; 
‘‘(ii) that is obligated; 
‘‘(iii) of unobligated balances; and 
‘‘(iv) of any other budgetary re-
sources; 
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‘‘(B) from which accounts and in what 
amount— 
‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 
each program activity; and 
‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each pro-
gram activity; 
‘‘(C) from which accounts and in what 
amount— 
‘‘(i) appropriations are obligated for 
each object class; and 
‘‘(ii) outlays are made for each object 
class; and 
‘‘(D) for each program activity, the 
amount— 
‘‘(i) obligated for each object class; 
and 
‘‘(ii) of outlays made for each object 
class. 
‘‘(2) BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘budget justification materials’ means the 
annual budget justification materials of an 
agency that are submitted, in conjunction with 
the budget of the United States Government 
submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, 
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United States Code, but does not include budg-
et justification materials that are classified. 
‘‘(B) INFORMATION.—The information to 
be posted shall include any budget justification 
materials— 
‘‘(i) for the second fiscal year begin-
ning after the date of enactment of this 
paragraph, and each fiscal year thereafter; 
and 
‘‘(ii) to the extent practicable, that 
were released for any fiscal year before the 
date of enactment of this paragraph. 
‘‘(C) FORMAT.—Budget justification mate-
rials shall be posted under subparagraph (B)— 
‘‘(i) as an open Government data 
asset (as defined under section 3502 of 
title 44, United States Code); 
‘‘(ii) in a manner that enables users 
to download individual reports, download 
all reports in bulk, and download in bulk 
the results of a search, to the extent prac-
ticable; and 
‘‘(iii) in a structured data format, to 
the extent practicable. 
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‘‘(D) DEADLINE.—The budget justification 
materials required to be posted under subpara-
graph (B)(i) shall be posted not later than 2 
weeks after the date on which the budget jus-
tification materials are first submitted to Con-
gress. 
‘‘(E) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing 
in this paragraph shall be construed to author-
ize an agency to destroy any budget justifica-
tion materials relating to a fiscal year before 
the fiscal year described in subparagraph 
(B)(i).’’. 
(b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY BUDGET 
JUSTIFICATIONS.—Section 1105 of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i)(1) The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall make publicly available on a website, and 
continuously update, a tabular list for each fiscal year of 
each agency that submits budget justification materials, 
which shall include— 
‘‘(A) the name of the agency; 
‘‘(B) a unique identifier that identifies the 
agency; 
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‘‘(C) to the extent practicable, the date on 
which the budget justification materials of the agen-
cy are first submitted to Congress; 
‘‘(D) the date on which the budget justification 
materials of the agency are posted online under sec-
tion 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006; 
‘‘(E) the uniform resource locator where the 
budget justification materials are published on the 
website of the agency; and 
‘‘(F) a single data set that contains the infor-
mation described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) 
with respect to the agency for all fiscal years for 
which budget justifications of the agency are made 
available under section 3 of the Federal Funding Ac-
countability and Transparency Act of 2006 in a 
structured data format. 
‘‘(2)(A) Each agency that submits budget justifica-
tion materials shall make the materials available on the 
website of the agency, in accordance with the policies es-
tablished by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget under subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(B) The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of 
the Treasury, shall establish policies for agencies re-
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