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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 724
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.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY24, 2025
Mr. D
AVIDSON(for himself, Mr. BARR, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr.
S
COTTFRANKLINof Florida, Ms. HAGEMAN, Mr. HIGGINSof Louisiana,
Mr. M
ILLS, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. OGLES, Mr. PALMER, Mr.
P
ERRY, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. AUSTINSCOTTof Georgia, Ms. TENNEY, Mr.
W
EBERof Texas, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. VANDREW, Mr. CLYDE, Ms. GREENE
of Georgia, Mr. G
ILLof Texas, Mrs. MILLERof Illinois, Mr. FALLON,
Mr. W
ILSONof South Carolina, Mr. HARRISof North Carolina, Mr.
M
CGUIRE, Ms. FEDORCHAK, Mr. CLINE, Mr. FRY, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr.
R
OSE, and Mr. MASSIE) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Budget
A BILL
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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘CBO Show Your Work 2
Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE 4
MODELS. 5
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 402 of the Congressional 6
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) is amended— 7
(1) by striking ‘‘The Director’’ and inserting 8
the following: 9
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Director’’; and 10
(2) by adding at the end the following: 11
‘‘(b) P
UBLICATION OFMODELS ANDDATA.—The Di-12
rector of the Congressional Budget Office shall make 13
available to Members of Congress and make publicly avail-14
able on the website of the Congressional Budget Office— 15
‘‘(1) each fiscal model, policy model, and data 16
preparation routine used by the Congressional Budg-17
et Office in estimating the costs and other fiscal, so-18
cial, or economic effects of legislation, including esti-19
mates prepared under subsection (a); 20
‘‘(2) any update of a model or routine described 21
in paragraph (1); 22
‘‘(3) subject to paragraph (4), for each estimate 23
of the costs and other fiscal effects of legislation, in-24
cluding estimates prepared under subsection (a), the 25
data, programs, models, assumptions, and other de-26
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tails of the computations used by the Congressional 1
Budget Office in preparing the estimate, in a man-2
ner sufficient to permit replication by individuals not 3
employed by the Congressional Budget Office; and 4
‘‘(4) for any data that is required not to be dis-5
closed by the Congressional Budget Office— 6
‘‘(A) a complete list of all data variables 7
for such data; 8
‘‘(B) descriptive statistics for all data vari-9
ables for such data (including averages, stand-10
ard deviations, number of observations, and cor-11
relations to other variables), to the extent that 12
the descriptive statistics do not violate the rule 13
against disclosure; 14
‘‘(C) a reference to the statute requiring 15
that the data not be disclosed; and 16
‘‘(D) information regarding how to contact 17
the individual or entity who has unrestricted ac-18
cess to the data.’’. 19
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 20
subsection (a) shall apply on and after the date that is 21
6 months after the date of enactment of this Act. 22
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