Duplication Scoring Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the Government Accountability Office, to the extent practicable, to review every public bill or joint resolution reported by a congressional committee, including appropriations and budget committees. GAO must determine whether the measure risks creating a new program, office, or initiative that duplicates or overlaps an area already identified in GAO's annual duplication reports. When warranted, GAO identifies the new entity, bill section, and prior report; sends the information to CBO and the reporting committee; and publishes it online. The CBO Director may supplement the bill's cost estimate with GAO's findings, including after the original estimate if GAO reports later. Duties begin on the earlier of a date tied to OMB's next website update plus 60 days, or the start of a new Congress more than one year after enactment.
Who Benefits and How
Congressional committees and legislative staff benefit from bill-specific identification of proposed programs that may replicate federal work already documented as duplicative, overlapping, or fragmented. Federal taxpayers and government-efficiency advocates benefit from public GAO findings and optional CBO estimate supplements that make duplication risk visible before legislation advances.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Government Accountability Office analysts must review a broad universe of reported measures, conduct practicable comparisons with annual duplication reports, notify CBO and committees, and publish findings. Congressional Budget Office staff may need to incorporate or later supplement cost estimates, and congressional program sponsors may have to answer publicly documented overlap concerns.
Key Provisions
- Requires GAO to assess reported public bills and joint resolutions for new duplicative or overlapping federal programs, offices, or initiatives.
- Requires warranted findings to identify the proposed entity, bill section, and prior GAO duplication report.
- Requires submission to CBO and the reporting committee and publication on the GAO website.
- Authorizes CBO to include timely or later GAO findings as a supplement to the bill's cost estimate.
- Establishes a contingent effective date based on OMB's next statutory website update or a later new Congress.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Require GAO to assess reported public bills for new federal duplication or overlap and allow CBO to attach those findings to legislative cost estimates.
Key Policy Areas
Government Operations, Legislative Procedure, Budget
Primary Purpose
Require GAO to assess reported public bills for new federal duplication or overlap and allow CBO to attach those findings to legislative cost estimates.
Policy Domains
Duplication Scoring Act of 2025
Identified Gains
- Congressional committees and legislative staff
- Federal taxpayers and government-efficiency advocates
Identified Costs
- Government Accountability Office analysts
- Congressional Budget Office staff
- Federal program sponsors
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be …
Mr. Paul (for himself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional Budget Office analysts, Congressional Budget Office implementation staff, Congressional committees reviewing reported bills
Positive-direction: Congressional committees reviewing reported bills
Negative-direction: Government Accountability Office analysts, Sponsors of potentially duplicative federal programs
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of the Congressional Budget Office
- "reporting_body"
- → Congressional committee reporting the measure
- "the_comptroller_general"
- → Comptroller General and Government Accountability Office
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A new federal program, office, or initiative in a reported measure that would duplicate or overlap an area already identified in a GAO duplication report.
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