H.R. 8096

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8096 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8096

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 26, 2026

Mr. Burchett (for himself, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Gosar, Ms. Crockett, and 
Ms. Mace) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Government 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 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 2026''.

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);
``(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;
``(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--
``(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;
``(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
``(ii) submit the information described in clause 
(i) to the Director and the committee that reported the 
covered bill or joint resolution; and
``(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).
``(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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