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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 2101
5	5	To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants submitting duplicative
6	6	or fraudulent applications, to require the Director of Office of Manage-
7	7	ment and Budget to establish a tracking and deconfliction system for
8	8	Federal grant applications, and for other purposes.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	MARCH14, 2025
11	11	Mrs. B
12	12	ICE(for herself and Mr. SELF) introduced the following bill; which was
13	13	referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants sub-
16	16	mitting duplicative or fraudulent applications, to require
17	17	the Director of Office of Management and Budget to
18	18	establish a tracking and deconfliction system for Federal
19	19	grant applications, and for other purposes.
20	20	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
21	21	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
22	22	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
23	23	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Duplicative Grant Con-4
24	24	solidation Act’’. 5
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28	28	SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FEDERAL GRANTS TO 1
29	29	APPLICANTS SUBMITTING DUPLICATIVE OR 2
30	30	FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS. 3
31	31	(a) N
32	32	OAWARD ONBASIS OFDUPLICATIVEAPPLICA-4
33	33	TION.— 5
34	34	(1) P
35	35	ROHIBITION.— 6
36	36	(A) I
37	37	N GENERAL.—Except as provided for 7
38	38	under subparagraph (B), the head of an execu-8
39	39	tive agency may not award a grant to an appli-9
40	40	cant determined by the head of the agency or 10
41	41	the Inspector General of the agency to have re-11
42	42	ceived another grant from the head of another 12
43	43	executive agency for the same or identical pur-13
44	44	pose. 14
45	45	(B) E
46	46	XCEPTION.—The prohibition under 15
47	47	subparagraph (A) related to the award of 16
48	48	grants for the same or identical purposes shall 17
49	49	not apply to an applicant that is an institution 18
50	50	of higher education. 19
51	51	(2) D
52	52	ETERMINATION.—In the case that the 20
53	53	head of an executive agency or the Inspector General 21
54	54	of the agency determines that an applicant for a 22
55	55	grant has submitted an application for another 23
56	56	grant from another executive agency for the same or 24
57	57	identical purpose, the heads of such agencies shall 25
58	58	jointly determine which agency is the appropriate 26
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62	62	agency to award the grant, if such grant is to be 1
63	63	awarded to such applicant. 2
64	64	(b) N
65	65	OAWARD ONBASIS OFFRAUDULENTAPPLICA-3
66	66	TION.—The head of an executive agency may not award 4
67	67	a grant to an applicant determined by the head of the 5
68	68	agency or the Inspector General of the agency to have sub-6
69	69	mitted a fraudulent application for such grant. 7
70	70	SEC. 3. TRACKING AND DECONFLICTION SYSTEM FOR FED-8
71	71	ERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 9
72	72	(a) E
73	73	STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 10
74	74	the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 11
75	75	Office of Management and Budget shall make available 12
76	76	to the heads of executive agencies, including the Inspec-13
77	77	tors General of such agencies, an electronic system 14
78	78	through which the head of an executive agency may deter-15
79	79	mine before awarding a grant, or through which an In-16
80	80	spector General of an executive agency may determine in 17
81	81	conducting an audit or investigation, whether any appli-18
82	82	cant for such grant has received, or submitted an applica-19
83	83	tion to the head of another executive agency for, another 20
84	84	grant for the same or identical purpose. 21
85	85	(b) C
86	86	ONTENTS OFSYSTEM.—The system shall con-22
87	87	tain at a minimum, the name of the awardee, the principal 23
88	88	investigator, the award period, agency point of contact, 24
89	89	and an abstract. 25
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93	93	(c) ESSENTIALLYEQUIVALENTWORK.—The Direc-1
94	94	tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall estab-2
95	95	lish an electronic system which contains information for 3
96	96	all federal research awards through which the head of an 4
97	97	executive agency may determine before awarding a grant, 5
98	98	or through which an Inspector General of an executive 6
99	99	agency may determine in conducting an audit or investiga-7
100	100	tion, whether— 8
101	101	(1) substantially the same research is proposed 9
102	102	for funding in more than one grant application sub-10
103	103	mitted to the same Federal agency; 11
104	104	(2) substantially the same research is submitted 12
105	105	to two or more different Federal agencies for review 13
106	106	and funding consideration; or 14
107	107	(3) a specific research objective and the re-15
108	108	search design for accomplishing an objective are the 16
109	109	same or closely related in two or more proposals or 17
110	110	awards, regardless of the funding source. 18
111	111	SEC. 4. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF LEVERAGING ARTIFI-19
112	112	CIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY DUPLICA-20
113	113	TIVE FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 21
114	114	The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-22
115	115	et, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Di-23
116	116	rector of the National Science Foundation, and the Direc-24
117	117	tor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 25
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121	121	shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees 1
122	122	a report on the feasibility of leveraging artificial intel-2
123	123	ligence to rapidly identify, with respect to an application 3
124	124	for a grant submitted to the head of an executive agency— 4
125	125	(1) whether an applicant for such grant has re-5
126	126	ceived, or submitted an application to the head of 6
127	127	another executive agency for, another grant for the 7
128	128	same or identical purpose; and 8
129	129	(2) waste, fraud, and abuse. 9
130	130	SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 10
131	131	In this Act: 11
132	132	(1) A
133	133	PPLICABLE TIME PERIOD .—The term ‘‘ap-12
134	134	plicable time period’’ means— 13
135	135	(A) with respect to a covered application 14
136	136	for a grant awarded after the date on which 15
137	137	system is established under section 2(a), during 16
138	138	the period— 17
139	139	(i) beginning on the date on which 18
140	140	such application is submitted; and 19
141	141	(ii) ending on the date on which 20
142	142	amounts under the grant are no longer 21
143	143	being expended; and 22
144	144	(B) with respect to a covered application 23
145	145	for a grant awarded before the date on which 24
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149	149	the system is established under section 2(a), 1
150	150	during the period— 2
151	151	(i) beginning on that date; and 3
152	152	(ii) ending on the date on which 4
153	153	amounts under the grant are no longer 5
154	154	being expended. 6
155	155	(2) A
156	156	PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -7
157	157	TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-8
158	158	mittees’’ means— 9
159	159	(A) the Committee on Oversight and Ac-10
160	160	countability and the Committee on Appropria-11
161	161	tions of the House of Representatives; and 12
162	162	(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 13
163	163	and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 14
164	164	on Appropriations of the Senate. 15
165	165	(3) C
166	166	OVERED APPLICATION .—The term ‘‘cov-16
167	167	ered application’’ means an application for a grant 17
168	168	submitted to the head of an executive agency— 18
169	169	(A) after the date on which the system is 19
170	170	established under section 2(a); and 20
171	171	(B) before that date, if amounts under the 21
172	172	grant are still being expended on such date. 22
173	173	(4) E
174	174	XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 23
175	175	agency’’ means an agency in the executive branch of 24
176	176	the Federal Government. 25
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180	180	(5) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 1
181	181	term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 2
182	182	meaning given such term in section 102 of the High-3
183	183	er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.1002). 4
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