US Congress House Bill 6136 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)
Status: Introduced on July 17 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-07-19 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5019)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Congressional Budget Office Transparency Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), whenever an estimate of costs is prepared for any bill or resolution, to post on the CBO public website all working papers, including data, informational papers, methodologies, spreadsheets, computer programs, background data, revenue estimates, and aggregate data provided by the Joint Committee on Taxation, and any other material used to derive such cost estimate. Prohibits the Director from being required to post on the website any proprietary information utilized by CBO obtained from a third party with whom there is an agreement not to release such information.

Congressional Budget Office Transparency Act

Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Paul Broun [R-GA]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. Christopher Gibson [R-NY]
Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]	Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Tom Marino [R-PA]	Rep. Ron Paul [R-TX]
Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]	Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-07-19	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5019)
2012-07-17	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6136/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr6136/BILLS-112hr6136ih.pdf