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H.R. 6470

Introduced

Increasing Baseline Updates Act

Sponsor
RBlake D. Moore· Utah
Introduced
December 4, 2025
Policy area
Economics and Public Finance
Latest action
Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.December 4, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6470 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6470

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
to require the Congressional Budget Office to provide baseline updates, 
and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 4, 2025

Mr. Moore of Utah (for himself, Mr. Cline, Mr. Edwards, and Mr. Carter 
of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget

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A BILL

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
to require the Congressional Budget Office to provide baseline updates, 
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 ``Increasing Baseline Updates Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE UPDATES TO BASELINE.

Section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 602(e)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
``(4)(A) Unless directed otherwise by the chairs of the 
Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, 
submit to such committees at least two updates to the report 
submitted under paragraph (1), at least one of which shall 
include economic data used by the Director to calculate such 
update.
``(B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to limit 
the Director from providing any other update to the baseline 
during such year.''.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL TECHNICAL BUDGET DATA SUBMISSION BY THE PRESIDENT.

Section 1106 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
``(d) To the extent practicable, on or before February 1 of each 
calendar year, the President shall submit to Congress technical budget 
data for the fiscal year beginning in the ensuing calendar year, which 
shall include up-to-date estimates for current year and prior year data 
and credit reestimates for the current year (as included in the Federal 
credit supplement of such budget).''.
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