S 780 — Duplication Scoring Act of 2023

changes in existing law made by 
S. 780 as reported are shown as follows (existing law proposed 
to be omitted is enclosed in brackets, new matter is printed in 
italic, and existing law in which no change is proposed is 
shown in roman):

TITLE 31

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Subtitle I--General

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CHAPTER 7--GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

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 Subchapter II--General Duties and Powers

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SEC. 719. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORTS

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 (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.