---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 2953"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "2953"
heading: "Reports to Congress on additional employee requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/2953"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart A — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 29 — Commissions, Oaths, Records, and Reports"
  - "Subchapter II — Reports"
---

# §2953. Reports to Congress on additional employee requirements

- (a) Each report, recommendation, or other communication, of an official nature, of an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) which—
  - (1) relates to pending or proposed legislation which, if enacted, will entail an estimated annual expenditure of appropriated [funds](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) in excess of $1,000,000;
  - (2) is submitted or transmitted to Congress or a committee thereof in compliance with law or on the initiative of the appropriate [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) of the executive branch; and
  - (3) officially proposes or recommends the creation or expansion, either by action of Congress or by administrative action, of a function, activity, or [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) of the [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) to be in addition to those functions, activities, and [authorities](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) thereof existing when the report, recommendation, or other communication is so submitted or transmitted;

  shall contain a statement, concerning the [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2), for each of the first 5 fiscal years during which each additional or expanded function, activity, or [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) so proposed or recommended is to be in effect, setting forth the following information—

  - (A) the estimated maximum additional—
    - (i) man-years of civilian employment, by general categories of [positions](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3);
    - (ii) expenditures for personal [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26); and
    - (iii) expenditures for all purposes other than personal [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26);

    which are attributable to the function, activity, or [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) and which will be required to be effected by the [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) in connection with the performance thereof; and

  - (B) such other statement, discussion, explanation, or other information as is considered advisable by the appropriate [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) of the executive branch or that is required by Congress or a committee thereof.
- (b) [Subsection (a)](#a) of this section does not apply to—
  - (1) the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1);
  - (2) a [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) controlled corporation; or
  - (3) the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) Accountability [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 413; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 642a. | Jan. 16, 1883, ch. 27, § 11; added July 25, 1956, ch. 730, § 1, 70 Stat. 652. |

In subsection (a), the words, “Executive agency” are substituted for “department, agency, or independent establishment of the executive branch of the Federal Government (including any corporation wholly owned by the United States)” in view of the definition of “Executive agency” in section 105. The exception of “a Government controlled corporation” is subsection (b) (2) is added to preserve the application to corporations wholly owned by the United States.

The exception of “the General Accounting Office” in subsection (b)(3) is added to preserve application to the executive branch.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.