119-hr2523

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2523 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2523

 To condition the disbursement of Federal funds to any State on such 
 State establishing a department, agency, or commission of government 
 efficiency, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 31, 2025

 Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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 A BILL

 To condition the disbursement of Federal funds to any State on such 
 State establishing a department, agency, or commission of government 
 efficiency, 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 ``State-Level Departments of 
Government Efficiency Establishment Act'' or the ``State-Level DOGE 
Establishment Act''.

SEC. 2. CONDITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING TO STATES.

    (a) Condition.--

    (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
 law, in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, no 
 discretionary appropriations may be disbursed to any State 
 unless such State has established an entity described in 
 subsection

    (b) .

    (2) Exception.--For purposes of paragraph

    (1) , the term 
 ``discretionary appropriations'' does not include any 
 discretionary appropriations within the security category (as 
 that term is defined in 

section 250
            (c) of the Balanced Budget 
 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900
            (c) ).

    (b) State-Level Doge Agency.--Each State shall establish and 
maintain a department, agency, or commission of government efficiency 
to review the efficacy of the State's administration of Federal funding 
and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. Such a 
department, agency, or commission shall--

    (1) be comprised of at least 10 members and not more than 
 20 members;

    (2) have an equal number of members of the majority party 
 and the minority party in the State's Legislature; and

    (3) publish, on the State's public website, and submit to 
 the Department of Government Efficiency within the Executive 
 Office of the President, an annual report that--
        (A) details the entity's work to review the 
 efficacy of the State's administration of Federal 
 funding and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of 
 taxpayer funds; and
        (B) provides legislative and operational 
 suggestions and recommendations to improve the 
 efficiency of the expenditure of Federal funds.
            (c) State Defined.--In this section, the term ``State'' means each 
of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each territory of 
the United States.
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