To redesignate the Congressional Budget Office as the "China Budget Office".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This one-section bill renames the Congressional Budget Office as the China Budget Office. It also provides that any reference to the Congressional Budget Office in laws, rules, regulations, certificates, directives, instructions, or other official papers in force on enactment is considered to refer and apply to the China Budget Office. The bill does not change the office's duties, scoring rules, budget baseline methods, leadership structure, or relationship to Congress; it is a statutory redesignation of the office and all existing official references. In practical terms, Congress would still receive cost estimates and budget analysis from the same legislative-branch office, but official legal and administrative materials would have to use the new name.
Who Benefits and How
Members of Congress who support the symbolic renaming benefit from having the new title appear in federal legal and administrative references. Legislative drafters, government publishers, congressional staff, and committee clerks benefit from a reference rule that avoids having to amend every existing CBO reference one by one.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Congressional Budget Office staff, congressional committees, legislative counsel, federal publishers, budget analysts, and agencies that rely on CBO scores must update names in templates, websites, documents, databases, briefing materials, public communications, and automated reference systems. Staff would need to comply with the new naming rule while explaining that the office's substantive budget-analysis function remains unchanged, which could create public confusion and implementation costs.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Congressional Budget Office to be renamed the China Budget Office.
- Provides that existing references in laws, rules, regulations, certificates, directives, instructions, and official papers apply to the renamed office.
- Preserves the office's substantive budget-analysis function because the bill changes only the name and reference rule.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Redesignates the Congressional Budget Office as the China Budget Office and treats every existing official reference to the Congressional Budget Office as a reference to the renamed office.
Key Policy Areas
Government
Primary Purpose
Redesignates the Congressional Budget Office as the China Budget Office and treats every existing official reference to the Congressional Budget Office as a reference to the renamed office.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Members of Congress supporting the redesignation
- Legislative drafters
- Government publishers
- Congressional staff
- Committee clerks
Identified Costs
- Congressional Budget Office staff
- Congressional committees
- Federal publishers
- Budget analysts
- Agencies relying on CBO scores
- Legislative counsel staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on the Budget.
Introduced in House
Mr. Mills introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
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