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H.R. 3116, Quarterly Financial Report Reauthorization Act 1 (July 29, 2015)

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                 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                            COST ESTIMATE

                                                                    July 29, 2015


                                 H.R.   3116
             Quarterly   Financial  Report  Reauthorization   Act

  As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
                                on July 23, 2015


H.R. 3116 would extend the authority for the Department of Commerce to conduct the
quarterly financial report program through 2030. Under that program, which will expire at
the end of fiscal year 2015, the Census Bureau collects and publishes statistics on the
financial condition of U.S. businesses. Information from the Census Bureau indicates that
the program costs about $5 million a year. Therefore, CBO estimates that implementing the
bill would cost $25 million over the 2016-2020 period, assuming appropriation of the
estimated amounts. Enacting H.R. 3116 would not affect direct spending or revenues;
therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 3116 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates
Reform Act (UMRA)   and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

The quarterly financial report program, which the bill would extend, requires certain
companies to provide survey information on their business and financial data to the Census
Bureau. Extending this requirement would be a private-sector mandate on those
companies. Based on information from the Census Bureau, CBO estimates that the direct
cost to comply with the mandate would fall well below the annual threshold established by
UMRA   for private-sector mandates ($154 million in 2015, adjusted annually for inflation).

The CBO  staff contacts for this estimate are Susan Willie (for federal costs) and
Paige Piper/Bach (for private-sector mandates). The estimate was approved by
H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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