Congressional Budget Office Scheduling Reform Act

Congressional Budget Office Scheduling Reform Act

This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to annually publish a schedule of the expected publication dates of its major recurring reports.

The schedule must must include, at a minimum, the expected publication dates for

• the baseline for the budget year and subsequent updates,
• the report on options to reduce the deficit,
• the report on the accuracy of budgetary projections for the most recently completed fiscal year, and
• the report on programs or activities with unauthorized appropriations.

CBO must (1) publish the schedule on its public website no later than December 31 of each year, and (2) update the schedule during the following calendar year as necessary.  

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6140 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6140

 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
to direct the Congressional Budget Office to publish a schedule of the 
   availability of certain publications by the Office, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2025

    Mr. Gill of Texas (for himself, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Grothman, Mr. 
 McDowell, Mr. Estes, and Mr. Stutzman) introduced the following bill; 
           which was referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
to direct the Congressional Budget Office to publish a schedule of the 
   availability of certain publications by the Office, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Congressional Budget Office 
Scheduling Reform Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLICATION OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SCHEDULE OF 
              PUBLICATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Title IV of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after section 
402 the following:

                 ``congressional budget office schedule

    ``Sec. 403.  (a) Schedule.--Not later than December 31 of each 
calendar year, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall 
publish, on the Office's public website, a schedule setting forth the 
expected publication dates of major recurring reports. Such schedule 
shall include at a minimum the following:
            ``(1) The baseline for the budget year and subsequent 
        updates.
            ``(2) The report on options to reduce the deficit.
            ``(3) The report on the accuracy of budgetary projections 
        for the most recently completed fiscal year.
            ``(4) The report on programs or activities with 
        unauthorized appropriations under section 202(e)(3).
    ``(b) Update.--The Director shall, as the Director deems necessary, 
update the schedule published under subsection (a) during the calendar 
year immediately following the calendar year such schedule was 
published.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 402 
the following:

``Sec. 403. Congressional Budget Office schedule.''.
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