119-s2733

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2733 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2733

 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.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 8, 2025

 Mr. Paul (for himself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
 and Governmental Affairs

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 A BILL

 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.

 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 2025''.

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 Committee on the Budget of either 
 House);
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        (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, or fragmentation 
 in a GAO duplication and overlap report;
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            (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--
 ``
        (A) the Comptroller General shall, to the extent 
 practicable--
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            (i) determine the extent to which the covered 
 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 program, 
 office, or initiative;
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            (II) the section of the covered bill or 
 joint resolution at which the new duplicative 
 or overlapping feature is established; and
 ``
            (III) the GAO duplication and overlap 
 report in which the existing duplicative or 
 overlapping feature is identified; and
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            (ii) submit the information described in clause
            (i) to the Director and the committee that reported the 
 covered bill or joint resolution; and
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            (iii) publish the information prepared under 
 clause
            (i) on the website of the Government 
 Accountability Office; and
 ``
        (B) subject to paragraph

    (3) , the Director may include 
 the information submitted by the Comptroller General under 
 subparagraph
        (A)
            (ii) as a supplement to the estimate for the 
 covered bill or joint resolution to which the information 
 pertains submitted by the Director under 

section 402 of the 
 Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653).
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    (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 committee 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 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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