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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2101
To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants submitting duplicative
or fraudulent applications, to require the Director of Office of Manage-
ment and Budget to establish a tracking and deconfliction system for
Federal grant applications, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH14, 2025
Mrs. B
ICE(for herself and Mr. SELF) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To prohibit the award of Federal grants to applicants sub-
mitting duplicative or fraudulent applications, to require
the Director of Office of Management and Budget to
establish a tracking and deconfliction system for Federal
grant applications, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Duplicative Grant Con-4
solidation Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FEDERAL GRANTS TO 1
APPLICANTS SUBMITTING DUPLICATIVE OR 2
FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS. 3
(a) N
OAWARD ONBASIS OFDUPLICATIVEAPPLICA-4
TION.— 5
(1) P
ROHIBITION.— 6
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided for 7
under subparagraph (B), the head of an execu-8
tive agency may not award a grant to an appli-9
cant determined by the head of the agency or 10
the Inspector General of the agency to have re-11
ceived another grant from the head of another 12
executive agency for the same or identical pur-13
pose. 14
(B) E
XCEPTION.—The prohibition under 15
subparagraph (A) related to the award of 16
grants for the same or identical purposes shall 17
not apply to an applicant that is an institution 18
of higher education. 19
(2) D
ETERMINATION.—In the case that the 20
head of an executive agency or the Inspector General 21
of the agency determines that an applicant for a 22
grant has submitted an application for another 23
grant from another executive agency for the same or 24
identical purpose, the heads of such agencies shall 25
jointly determine which agency is the appropriate 26
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agency to award the grant, if such grant is to be 1
awarded to such applicant. 2
(b) N
OAWARD ONBASIS OFFRAUDULENTAPPLICA-3
TION.—The head of an executive agency may not award 4
a grant to an applicant determined by the head of the 5
agency or the Inspector General of the agency to have sub-6
mitted a fraudulent application for such grant. 7
SEC. 3. TRACKING AND DECONFLICTION SYSTEM FOR FED-8
ERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 9
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 1 year after 10
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 11
Office of Management and Budget shall make available 12
to the heads of executive agencies, including the Inspec-13
tors General of such agencies, an electronic system 14
through which the head of an executive agency may deter-15
mine before awarding a grant, or through which an In-16
spector General of an executive agency may determine in 17
conducting an audit or investigation, whether any appli-18
cant for such grant has received, or submitted an applica-19
tion to the head of another executive agency for, another 20
grant for the same or identical purpose. 21
(b) C
ONTENTS OFSYSTEM.—The system shall con-22
tain at a minimum, the name of the awardee, the principal 23
investigator, the award period, agency point of contact, 24
and an abstract. 25
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(c) ESSENTIALLYEQUIVALENTWORK.—The Direc-1
tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall estab-2
lish an electronic system which contains information for 3
all federal research awards through which the head of an 4
executive agency may determine before awarding a grant, 5
or through which an Inspector General of an executive 6
agency may determine in conducting an audit or investiga-7
tion, whether— 8
(1) substantially the same research is proposed 9
for funding in more than one grant application sub-10
mitted to the same Federal agency; 11
(2) substantially the same research is submitted 12
to two or more different Federal agencies for review 13
and funding consideration; or 14
(3) a specific research objective and the re-15
search design for accomplishing an objective are the 16
same or closely related in two or more proposals or 17
awards, regardless of the funding source. 18
SEC. 4. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY OF LEVERAGING ARTIFI-19
CIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY DUPLICA-20
TIVE FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS. 21
The Director of the Office of Management and Budg-22
et, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Di-23
rector of the National Science Foundation, and the Direc-24
tor of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 25
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shall submit to the appropriate Congressional committees 1
a report on the feasibility of leveraging artificial intel-2
ligence to rapidly identify, with respect to an application 3
for a grant submitted to the head of an executive agency— 4
(1) whether an applicant for such grant has re-5
ceived, or submitted an application to the head of 6
another executive agency for, another grant for the 7
same or identical purpose; and 8
(2) waste, fraud, and abuse. 9
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 10
In this Act: 11
(1) A
PPLICABLE TIME PERIOD .—The term ‘‘ap-12
plicable time period’’ means— 13
(A) with respect to a covered application 14
for a grant awarded after the date on which 15
system is established under section 2(a), during 16
the period— 17
(i) beginning on the date on which 18
such application is submitted; and 19
(ii) ending on the date on which 20
amounts under the grant are no longer 21
being expended; and 22
(B) with respect to a covered application 23
for a grant awarded before the date on which 24
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the system is established under section 2(a), 1
during the period— 2
(i) beginning on that date; and 3
(ii) ending on the date on which 4
amounts under the grant are no longer 5
being expended. 6
(2) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -7
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-8
mittees’’ means— 9
(A) the Committee on Oversight and Ac-10
countability and the Committee on Appropria-11
tions of the House of Representatives; and 12
(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 13
and Governmental Affairs and the Committee 14
on Appropriations of the Senate. 15
(3) C
OVERED APPLICATION .—The term ‘‘cov-16
ered application’’ means an application for a grant 17
submitted to the head of an executive agency— 18
(A) after the date on which the system is 19
established under section 2(a); and 20
(B) before that date, if amounts under the 21
grant are still being expended on such date. 22
(4) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 23
agency’’ means an agency in the executive branch of 24
the Federal Government. 25
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(5) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 1
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 2
meaning given such term in section 102 of the High-3
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.1002). 4
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