---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1538"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1538"
heading: "Annual statements to Congress on agency compliance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1538"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Unfunded Mandates Reform"
  - "Subchapter II — Regulatory Accountability and Reform"
---

# §1538. Annual statements to Congress on agency compliance


No later than 1 year after March 22, 1995, and annually thereafter, the [Director](/usc/2/1502.md?p=2) of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the Congress, including the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives, a written report detailing compliance by each agency during the preceding reporting period with the requirements of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–4, title II, § 208, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 67.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Governmental Affairs of Senate changed to Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of Senate, effective Jan. 4, 2005, by Senate Resolution No. 445, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Oct. 9, 2004.

Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999. Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2019. Committee on Oversight and Reform of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Oversight and Accountability of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, Jan. 9, 2023.