Appropriations Transparency Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7584 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7584

     To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the 
 Congressional Budget Office to provide cost estimates for legislation 
  reported by the Committee on Appropriations of each House, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2024

Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Cline, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Mace, 
 Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Norman, Ms. Greene 
  of Georgia, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Wilson of South 
  Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the 
 Congressional Budget Office to provide cost estimates for legislation 
  reported by the Committee on Appropriations of each House, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Appropriations Transparency Act of 
2024''.

SEC. 2. COST ESTIMATES FOR LEGISLATION REPORTED BY COMMITTEES ON 
              APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Director'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--The Director'';
            (2) by striking ``(except the Committee on Appropriations 
        of each House)''; and
            (3) by adding after the matter following paragraph (3) the 
        following:
    ``(b) Estimates for Appropriations Measures.--Any estimate for any 
bill or joint resolution reported by the Committee on Appropriations of 
either House for which an estimate is prepared under subsection (a) 
shall include the following:
            ``(1) Total discretionary budget authority provided by such 
        measure.
            ``(2) A comparison between such budget authority and the 
        allocations applicable to such measure under subsections (a) 
        and (b) of section 302.
            ``(3) The estimated total outlays resulting from such 
        measure.
            ``(4) Rescissions of budget authority included in such 
        measure and the estimated changes in outlays therefrom.
            ``(5) Offsetting receipts and collections included in such 
        measure.
            ``(6) Changes in Mandatory Programs (commonly referred to 
        as `CHIMPs') included in such measure and the changes in 
        outlays therefrom.
            ``(7) Direct spending (if any) included in such measure and 
        changes in outlays therefrom.
            ``(8) The effects of any authorizing provisions in such 
        measure.
            ``(9) Notations of different categorizations of budget 
        authority and outlays, sorted by category of discretionary 
        spending limit under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985 and by any designation under section 
        251(b)(2) of such Act.
    ``(c) Conforming Amendment.--Clause 8 of Rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representative shall not apply to any bill or joint 
resolution reported by the Committee on Appropriations of such 
House.''.
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