Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
Latest action · Oct 1, 2012 Committee on House Administration discharged.
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.
- IntroducedDec 8, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act - Requires the head of each federal agency, on an annual basis, to: (1) identify and describe every program administered by such agency; (2) determine the total administrative expenses and expenditures for services for each program; (3) estimate the number of clients served by each program and the beneficiaries who received assistance under each program; (4) estimate the number of full-time federal and contract employees who administer each program; and (5) identify federal programs with duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and allowable uses of funds.
Requires each agency head to publish on the agency website, not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, the information required by this Act, the latest performance reviews of each agency program, improper payment rates, the total amount of undisbursed grant funding remaining in grant accounts, and recommendations for consolidating duplicative or overlapping programs, eliminating waste and inefficiency, and terminating lower priority, outdated, and unnecessary programs and initiatives.
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, to publish on the OMB website a report that contains: (1) an identification of programs across agencies with duplicative or overlapping missions, services, and allowable uses of funds; and (2) recommendations to consolidate duplicative programs, eliminate waste and inefficiency, and terminate lower priority, outdated, and unnecessary programs and initiatives.
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the disclosure of classified information.
Cosponsors 25
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 8, 2011 to May 31, 2012; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OK | Dan Boren | Original | Dec 8, 2011 |
| R-PA | Jim Gerlach | Original | Dec 8, 2011 |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Original | Dec 8, 2011 |
| R-WI | Paul D. Ryan | Dec 12, 2011 | |
| R-UT | Jason Chaffetz | Dec 14, 2011 | |
| R-IL | Timothy V. Johnson | Dec 14, 2011 | |
| R-NC | Sue Wilkins Myrick | Dec 16, 2011 | |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-WY | Cynthia M. Lummis | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-FL | Dennis A. Ross | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-GA | Jack Kingston | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Joseph R. Pitts | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-TX | Louie Gohmert | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-MI | Tim Walberg | Jan 18, 2012 | |
| R-TX | Francisco "Quico" Canseco | Jan 23, 2012 | |
| R-NC | Virginia Foxx | Jan 23, 2012 | |
| R-IL | Donald A. Manzullo | Jan 25, 2012 | |
| R-GA | Lynn A. Westmoreland | Jan 31, 2012 | |
| R-GA | Paul C. Broun | Feb 13, 2012 | |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Mar 22, 2012 | |
| R-IN | Todd Rokita | Apr 17, 2012 | |
| R-SC | Tim Scott | Apr 26, 2012 | |
| R-MS | Steven M. Palazzo | May 31, 2012 |
Withdrew 1 Justin Amash I-MI Jan 23, 2012
Committees 2
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 Dec 8, 2011Markup Apr 26, 2012Reported Jul 31, 2012 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Jul 31, 2012Discharged Oct 1, 2012 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 1, 2012Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 505.
- Oct 1, 2012Committee on House Administration discharged.
- Jul 31, 2012Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 112-635, Part I.
- Jul 31, 2012Referred sequentially to the House Committee on House Administration for a period ending not later than Oct. 1, 2012 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(k), rule X.
- Apr 26, 2012Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
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 estimate
- Jul 3, 2012H.R. 3609, Taxpayers Right-To-Know ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 26, 2012
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H8319.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1957 | Taxpayers Right to Know Act | Identical bill | Dec 7, 2011 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the cost of, performance by, and areas for improvements for Government programs, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Taxpayers Right to Know Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 1, 2012Reported in House
- Dec 8, 2011Introduced 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.
