S 2733

Introduced

Duplication Scoring Act of 2025

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives.

Introduced Sep 8, 2025

Latest action (Aug 6, 2026) Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

Referred to

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

Policy area

Government Operations and Politics

Legislative subjects (5)

Congressional oversight Government Accountability Office (GAO)Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Legislative rules and procedure

Summary

Requires the Comptroller General to assess each reported bill or joint resolution for the risk of creating new programs, offices, or initiatives that duplicate or overlap with existing Federal programs previously identified in Government Accountability Office duplication reports.
Requires the Comptroller General to identify any new duplicative or overlapping features in covered bills, including the program name, bill section, and the relevant GAO report reference.
Requires the Comptroller General to submit duplication assessments to the Congressional Budget Office Director and the committee that reported the bill, and to publish the assessments on the GAO website.
Allows the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to include duplication assessments as a supplement to the budget estimate for covered bills if the Comptroller General submits the assessment after the initial budget estimate is submitted.

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Sponsor (1)

Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY] (R-KY)

1 cosponsor

Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] (D-NH)

Actions (3)

Aug 6, 2026 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. · senate
Sep 8, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. · senate
Sep 8, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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Text versions (1)

Introduced in Senate · Sep 8, 2025

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Meetings where this bill was on the agenda

Business meeting to consider an original resolution regarding Contempt of Congress, S.2732, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions programs within the Federal Government, S.2733, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives, S.252, to increase access to agency guidance documents, S.164, to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for en bloc consideration in resolutions of disapproval for "midnight rules", H.R.5235, to amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit minimum educational requirements for proposed contractor personnel in certain contract solicitations, S.3175, to establish a pilot program for ZIP Code boundary changes, S.4505, to require the United States Postal Service to designate ZIP Codes for certain communities, S.1735, to require certain agencies to include a page on the website of the agency relating to permit applications, S.5163, to amend title 39, United States Code, to prevent the awarding of bonuses to the Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General for a fiscal year in which the United States Postal Service does not meet or exceed each on-time mail delivery target, S.2542, to direct the Director of the Federal Protective Service to establish guidance relating to emergency protocols for buildings, S.3211, to require the Office of Management and Budget to consider revising the Standard Occupational Classification system to establish a separate code for direct support professionals, S.4079, to establish in U.S. Customs and Border Protection a pilot program to adopt dogs from local animal shelters to be trained as support dogs, S.3296, to amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to cover, for purposes of workers' compensation under such chapter, services by physician assistants and nurse practitioners provided to injured Federal workers, S.388, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act with respect to the implementation of building codes, S.3226, to provide for the creation of the missing Armed Forces and civilian personnel Records Collection at the National Archives, to require the expeditious public transmission to the Archivist and public disclosure of missing Armed Forces and civilian personnel records, S.24, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office", S.58, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 107 North Hoyne Avenue in Fritch, Texas, as the "Chief Zeb Smith Post Office", S.829, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 840 Front Street in Casselton, North Dakota, as the "Commander Delbert Austin Olson Post Office", S.917, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 620 East Pecan Boulevard in McAllen, Texas, as the "Agent Raul H. Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Post Office", S.2394, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 505 East 9th Avenue in Amarillo, Texas, as the "Mayor Jerry H. Hodge Post Office Building", S.2432, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6444 San Fernando Road in Glendale, California, as the "Paul Ignatius Post Office", S.3270 and H.R.6310, bills to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3570 Olney Laytonsville Road in Olney, Maryland, as the "Edward L. Ramsey Olney Post Office Building", S.3294 and H.R.6332, bills to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10660 Page Avenue in Fairfax, Virginia, as the "Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Post Office Building", S.3331, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 50 East 100 North in Moab, Utah, as the "2nd Lieutenant Mitch Williams Post Office", S.3373, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14855 South Van Dyke Road in Plainfield, Illinois, as the "Staff Sergeant Jose Duenez Jr. Post Office Building", S.3444, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service at 1300 East Northwest Highway in Palatine, Illinois, as the "Bernie Bluestein Post Office Building", S.3630, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building", S.3835, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 East Main Street in Mahaffey, Pennsylvania, as the "Robert Allen Bishop, Sr., Post Office Building", S.4052, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 203 North Clay Street in Marshfield, Missouri, shall be known and designated as the "Edwin P. Hubble Post Office", S.4523, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 111 SouHomeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeAug 6, 2026Business meeting

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

September 8, 2025

Mr. Paul (for himself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

A BILL

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to analyze certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Duplication Scoring Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. ASSESSMENTS OF REPORTED BILLS BY GAO.

Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(i)(1) In this subsection—

“(A) the term ‘covered bill or joint resolution’ means a bill or joint resolution of a public character reported by any committee of Congress (including the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget of either House);

“(B) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of the Congressional Budget Office;

“(C) the term ‘existing duplicative or overlapping feature’ means an element of the Federal Government previously identified as an area of duplication, overlap, or fragmentation in a GAO duplication and overlap report;

“(D) the term ‘GAO duplication and overlap report’ means each annual report prepared by the Comptroller General under section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘Joint Resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt’, approved February 12, 2010 (31 U.S.C. 712 note); and

“(E) the term ‘new duplicative or overlapping feature’ means a new Federal program, office, or initiative created under a covered bill or joint resolution that would duplicate or overlap with an existing duplicative or overlapping feature.

“(2) For each covered bill or joint resolution—

“(A) the Comptroller General shall, to the extent practicable—

“(i) determine the extent to which the covered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if the risk so warrants, identify—

“(I) the name of the new Federal program, office, or initiative;

“(II) the section of the covered bill or joint resolution at which the new duplicative or overlapping feature is established; and

“(III) the GAO duplication and overlap report in which the existing duplicative or overlapping feature is identified; and

“(ii) submit the information described in clause

(i) to the Director and the committee that reported the covered bill or joint resolution; and

“(iii) publish the information prepared under clause (i) on the website of the Government Accountability Office; and

“(B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director may include the information submitted by the Comptroller General under subparagraph (A)(ii) as a supplement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains submitted by the Director under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653).

“(3) If the Comptroller General has not submitted to the Director the information for a covered bill or joint resolution under paragraph

(2)(A)(ii) on the date on which the Director submits the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.

653), the Director may, on the date on which the Comptroller General submits the information to the Director, prepare and submit to each applicable committee the information as a supplement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution.”.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the earlier of—

(1) the date that is 60 days after the date on which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget next, in accordance with section 1122(a) of title 31, United States Code, updates the information made available on the website required under that section; or

(2) the date on which a new Congress begins after the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>

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