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The bill forces the CBO to publish models and materials to boost transparency and oversight, while increasing privacy risks and administrative costs for the agency and taxpayers.
Researchers, journalists, taxpayers, and Members of Congress can replicate and verify CBO cost estimates because the CBO must publish models, code, data (where allowed), and assumptions, increasing transparency and accountability of federal budget projections.
Members of Congress and federal/state policy staff will have direct access to the same underlying CBO tools and materials, improving legislative oversight and more informed policymaking.
Taxpayers and individuals represented in CBO datasets could face privacy and security harms if publication of models, code, or datasets enables re-identification or mishandling of sensitive nondisclosable data.
Federal employees and taxpayers may bear higher costs because preparing redacted datasets, reproducible packages, and maintaining public code increases CBO workload and administrative expenses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 24, 2025 by Warren Davidson · Last progress January 24, 2025
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to publish on the CBO website the models, routines, data-preparation code, inputs, assumptions, and computational details used to produce cost and fiscal estimates, and to post updates. Where law prevents disclosure of specific data, the Director must publish a list of variables, descriptive statistics (as allowed), the nondisclosure citation, and contact information for those with full access. The publication requirements take effect six months after enactment.