Bill > HR1077

Introduced Session

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. This bill requires 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 may not 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.

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Warren Davidson (R)*,  Rick Allen (R),  Ted Budd (R),  Michael Cloud (R),  Matt Gaetz (R),  Mike Gallagher (R),  Bob Gibbs (R),  Andy Harris (R),  Barry Loudermilk (R),  Alex Mooney (R),  Gary Palmer (R),  Scott Perry (R),  Bill Posey (R),  Mark Walker (R),  Ted Yoho (R), 

Referred to the House Committee on the Budget. (on 02/07/2019)

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