Program Assessment and Results Act
Latest action · Mar 17, 2005 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 12.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 4, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Program Assessment and Results Act - (Sec. 3) States as the purposes of this Act: (1) improving the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 by implementing a process to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Federal programs, with a particular focus on results produced by individual programs; (2) using information to help the executive branch make informed management decisions and evidence-based funding requests; and (3) providing Congress with the information necessary to conduct more effective oversight and make better-informed authorization and spending decisions.
(Sec. 4) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to the maximum extent practicable, to conduct, jointly with agencies of the Federal Government, an assessment of each Federal program at least once every five fiscal years (program assessments).
Requires the Director to: (1) coordinate with Federal agency heads to determine the programs to be assessed and to evaluate the purpose, design, strategic plan, management, and results of such programs; (2) develop criteria for identifying programs to be assessed each fiscal year; (3) assess certain higher priority programs more frequently than once every five years; (4) publish in electronic format and provide to Congress a list of programs to be assessed during a fiscal year and the criteria to be used to assess the programs, and allow interested person to comment on such programs; and (5) provide guidance to Federal agency heads for implementing the requirements of this Act.
Requires the Director to report to Congress the results of program assessments conducted during a fiscal year at the same time the President submits the next budget after the end of such fiscal year. Provides for the submission of program assessments containing classified information.
Requires that program assessment functions and activities be performed only by Federal employees as inherently Governmental functions.
(Sec. 5) Changes: (1) the date by which the heads of each Federal agency are required to submit strategic plans for program activities to September 30 of each year following a presidential election, beginning with September 30, 2005; and (2) the period of coverage for strategic plans from five to four years.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 4, 2005 to Feb 9, 2005; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-VA | Tom Davis | Original | Jan 4, 2005 |
| R-FL | Mario Diaz-Balart | Feb 9, 2005 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 4, 2005Markup Mar 10, 2005Reported Mar 17, 2005 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2005Reported by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-26.
- Mar 17, 2005Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 12.
- Mar 10, 2005Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Mar 10, 2005Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 14.
- Jan 4, 2005Introduced in House
- Jan 4, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E15)
- Jan 4, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E15 | Todd Russell Platts R-PA | Jan 4, 2005 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Mar 17, 2005H.R. 185, Program Assessment and Results Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on March 10, 2005</p>
- Mar 17, 2005H.R. 185, Program Assessment and Results ActCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Government Reform on March 10, 2005
CRS reports 3
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 3
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RS21416 | The President’s Management Agenda: A Brief Introduction Archived | Report | Jan 27, 2009 |
| RL32726 | Proposals for a Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies (CARFA): Analysis and Issues for Congress Archived | Report | Nov 10, 2005 |
| RL32164 | Performance Management and Budgeting in the Federal Government: Brief History and Recent Developments Archived | Report | Mar 16, 2005 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the review of Government programs at least once every 5 years for purposes of evaluating their performance.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Program Assessment and Results Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Program Assessment and Results Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Classified defense information
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Official secrets
- Performance measurement
- Planning-programming-budgeting
- Productivity in government
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Strategic planning
- Waste in government spending
- Web sites
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 17, 2005Reported in House
- Jan 4, 2005Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.