CBO Show Your Work Act
Latest action · Sep 25, 2017 Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
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.
- IntroducedSep 25, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
CBO Show Your Work Act
This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to make available to Congress and the public each fiscal model, policy model, and data preparation routine that the CBO uses to estimate the costs and other fiscal, social, or economic effects of legislation.
For each estimate of the costs and other fiscal effects of legislation, the CBO must also disclose, in a manner sufficient to permit replication by individuals not employed by the CBO, the data, programs, models, assumptions, and other details of the computations used to prepare the estimate.
For data that is not required to be disclosed, the CBO must make available to Congress and the public:
- a complete list of all data variables for the data;
- descriptive statistics for all data variables for the data, to the extent that the descriptive statistics do not violate the rule against disclosure;
- a reference to the statute requiring that the data not be disclosed; and
- contact information for the individual or entity who has unrestricted access to the data.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 25, 2017 to Nov 14, 2017; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NC | Mark Walker | Original | Sep 25, 2017 |
| R-GA | Barry Loudermilk | Sep 26, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Sep 26, 2017 | |
| R-WV | Alexander X. Mooney | Oct 3, 2017 | |
| R-TX | Brian Babin | Oct 3, 2017 | |
| R-MD | Andy Harris | Oct 5, 2017 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Oct 5, 2017 | |
| R-OH | Bob Gibbs | Oct 5, 2017 | |
| R-AZ | Trent Franks | Oct 5, 2017 | |
| R-WI | Mike Gallagher | Oct 11, 2017 | |
| R-NC | Robert Pittenger | Oct 11, 2017 | |
| R-VA | Dave Brat | Oct 16, 2017 | |
| R-GA | Rick W. Allen | Oct 16, 2017 | |
| R-AL | Gary J. Palmer | Nov 1, 2017 | |
| R-FL | Matt Gaetz | Nov 1, 2017 | |
| R-PA | Scott Perry | Nov 14, 2017 |
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 Sep 25, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2017Introduced in House
- Sep 25, 2017Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
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 Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 153, September 25, 2017, page H7486.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 115-11 | CBO OVERSIGHT: MEMBER DAY41 pages | Budget Committee | Mar 7, 2018 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1077 | CBO Show Your Work Act | Reintroduced Bill | Feb 7, 2019 |
| S 1746 | CBO Show Your Work Act | Identical bill | Aug 3, 2017 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Congressional Budget Office to make publicly available the fiscal and mathematical models, data, and other details of computations used in cost analysis and scoring.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- CBO Show Your Work Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 25, 2017Introduced 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.
