Congressional Budget Office Transparency Act
Latest action · Jul 19, 2012 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5019)
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.
- IntroducedJul 17, 2012
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Congressional Budget Office Transparency Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), whenever an estimate of costs is prepared for any bill or resolution, to post on the CBO public website all working papers, including data, informational papers, methodologies, spreadsheets, computer programs, background data, revenue estimates, and aggregate data provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation, and any other material used to derive such cost estimate.
Prohibits the Director from being required to post on the website any proprietary information utilized by CBO obtained from a third party with whom there is an agreement not to release such information.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 17, 2012 to Sep 11, 2012; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Dennis A. Ross | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| R-TX | Louie Gohmert | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| R-OH | Patrick J. Tiberi | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| R-GA | Paul C. Broun | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| R-OH | Steve Stivers | Original | Jul 17, 2012 |
| R-NY | Christopher P. Gibson | Jul 25, 2012 | |
| R-TX | Ron Paul | Jul 31, 2012 | |
| R-PA | Tom Marino | Aug 2, 2012 | |
| R-NE | Jeff Fortenberry | Sep 11, 2012 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Jul 17, 2012 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 19, 2012Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5019)
- Jul 17, 2012Introduced in House
- Jul 17, 2012Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5019 | Tim Murphy R-PA | Jul 19, 2012 |
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H4907.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to make all data and other information relating to the estimating of the cost of legislation available on its public website.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Congressional Budget Office Transparency Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 17, 2012Introduced 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.
