Duplication Scoring Act of 2021

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“(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 Public Law 111–139the 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.”