Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
Latest action · May 1, 2017 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 43.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 6, 2017
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
(Sec. 2) This bill requires that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website include an inventory that identifies each federal program for which there is more than $1 million in annual budget authority.
For programs for which there is more than $1 million but not more than $10 million in annual budget authority (smaller programs), the inventory must include:
- an identification of the program activities that are aggregated, disaggregated, or consolidated;
- for each such program activity, the amount of funding for the current fiscal year and the previous two fiscal years;
- an identification of the statutes that authorize the program and any major regulations specific to the program;
- a description of the individuals served by a program and beneficiaries who received financial assistance under a program for the most recent fiscal year; and
- links to any evaluation, assessment, or program performance reviews by the agency, an Inspector General, or the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released during the preceding five years.
For programs for which there is more than $10 million in annual budget authority (larger programs), the inventory must also include specified additional information, including financial information for each program activity required to be reported under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
The OMB shall archive and preserve the program inventory.
(Sec. 3) The bill requires the OMB to issue initial guidance to assist agencies in identifying how the program activities used in budget or appropriations accounts correspond with programs identified in the program inventory. The OMB may: (1) issue initial guidance to agencies to ensure that programs are presented at a similar level of detail across agencies and are not duplicative; (2) exempt from the requirements of this bill, based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, agencies that are not required to have a chief financial officer and that have not more than $10 million in budget authority; and (3) based on an analysis of the costs of implementation, extend the bill's implementation deadline (June 30, 2019) in one-year increments and by not more than two years.
The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress by five years after this bill's enactment regarding its implementation.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2017 to Nov 13, 2017; 8 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-NE | Deb Fischer | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| D-ND | Heidi Heitkamp | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-AZ | John McCain | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-OH | Rob Portman | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-WI | Ron Johnson | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-MT | Steve Daines | Original | Feb 6, 2017 |
| R-WY | Michael B. Enzi | Mar 2, 2017 | |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | May 17, 2017 | |
| R-LA | John Kennedy | Nov 13, 2017 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 6, 2017Markup Mar 15, 2017Reported May 1, 2017 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 1, 2017Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment. With written report No. 115-34.
- May 1, 2017Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 43.
- Mar 15, 2017Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
- Feb 6, 2017Introduced in Senate
- Feb 6, 2017Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
In the Congressional Record 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2412–S2414 | Charles E. Schumer D-NY, Claire McCaskill D-MO, James Lankford R-OK | Apr 25, 2018 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S7342 | James Lankford R-OK | Nov 28, 2017 |
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
- Apr 7, 2017S. 317, Taxpayers Right-To-Know ActAs ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 71 | Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act | Related bill | Jan 5, 2017 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication among them, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- 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.
- May 1, 2017Reported to Senate
- Feb 6, 2017Introduced in Senate
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.
