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The bill increases appropriations compliance and public transparency to reduce waste, but it does so at the cost of added administrative burden and punitive enforcement measures that can affect employee pay, access, and agency operations.
Taxpayers and federal agencies: fewer wasteful or unlawful expenditures because covered employees will be held to clearer appropriations compliance and oversight.
Covered federal employees: clearer knowledge of appropriations law and expectations, reducing the risk of illegal spending and improving use of taxpayer funds.
Taxpayers and the public: increased transparency because agencies must publish compliance statistics annually on public websites.
Federal employees in covered positions: risk suspension of supervisory budget authority and of pay/performance increases after 45 days of noncompliance, creating personal and workforce financial impacts.
Federal employees and agency operations: employees remaining noncompliant after 60 days can lose IT access, which may disrupt individual work and slow agency/service delivery (including obligations involving state governments).
Taxpayers and agency missions: implementing, tracking, and publicly reporting the compliance program will impose administrative costs and could divert staff time and resources away from other agency priorities or services.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates mandatory initial and annual appropriations-law training for covered executive-branch employees, with reporting, approved providers, and penalties for noncompliance.
Introduced June 27, 2025 by Marcia Carolyn Kaptur · Last progress June 27, 2025
Requires covered executive-branch employees to complete initial and annual appropriations-law training and directs agencies to track, certify, and publicly report compliance. Agencies must use GAO’s course, an agency course, or an approved outside course; OMB and the Comptroller General approve non-GAO providers and OPM issues guidance and an approved-provider list. Sets deadlines for initial and annual training, requires agencies to keep permanent records and submit annual reports to OMB, and imposes personnel and supervisory penalties (suspension of supervisory budget authority, pay/performance increases, and IT access) for failure to complete required training within specified timeframes.