Title: Duplication Scoring Act of 2020
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Duplication Scoring Act of 2020
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to analyze legislation reported by a congressional committee in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing federal programs, offices, and initiatives.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7438 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7438

 To amend section 719 of title 31, United States Code, to require the 
Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation 
 in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal 
      programs, offices, and initiatives, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2020

    Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Harris, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. 
 Grothman, Mr. Comer, Mr. Hice of Georgia, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Perry, and 
  Mr. Yoho) 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 consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 719 of title 31, United States Code, to require the 
Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation 
 in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal 
      programs, offices, and initiatives, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Duplication Scoring Act of 2020''.

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 resolution' means a bill or 
        joint resolution of a public character reported by any 
        committee of Congress (including the Committee on 
        Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget of either 
        House);
            ``(B) the term `Director' means the Director of the 
        Congressional Budget Office;
            ``(C) the term `existing duplicative or overlapping 
        feature' means an element of the Federal Government previously 
        identified as an area of duplication, overlap, and 
        fragmentation in a GAO duplication and overlap report;
            ``(D) the term `GAO duplication and overlap report' means 
        each annual report prepared by the Comptroller General under 
        section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled `Joint Resolution 
        increasing the statutory limit on the public debt', approved 
        February 12, 2010 (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 resolution that would duplicate 
        or overlap with an existing duplicative or overlapping feature.
    ``(2) For each covered bill or joint resolution, to the extent 
practicable, the Comptroller General shall determine the extent to 
which the covered bill or joint resolution risks creating a new 
duplicative or overlapping feature.
    ``(3) If the covered bill or joint resolution risks creating a new 
duplicative or overlapping feature, the Comptroller General shall 
prepare information that includes--
            ``(A) the name of the new Federal program, office, or 
        initiative; and
            ``(B) a reference to--
                    ``(i) the section of the covered bill or joint 
                resolution in which the new duplicative or overlapping 
                feature is established; and
                    ``(ii) the GAO duplication and overlap report in 
                which the existing duplicative or overlapping feature 
                is identified.
    ``(4) For the information prepared under paragraph (3) the 
Comptroller General shall to the extent practicable--
            ``(A) submit such information to the Director; and
            ``(B) publish such information on the website of the 
        Government Accountability Office.
    ``(5) Subject to paragraph (3), the Director may include the 
information submitted by the Comptroller General under subparagraph 
(4)(A) with the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution to 
which the assessment pertains submitted by the Director under section 
402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653).
    ``(6) If the Comptroller General has not submitted to the Director 
the information for a covered bill or joint resolution under paragraph 
(4)(A) 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 committee a version of the estimate for the covered bill or 
joint resolution that includes the information.''.

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 information made available on the website 
        required under that section; or
            (2) the date on which a new Congress begins after the date 
        that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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