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H.R. 1557: Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2015 1 (May 8, 2015)

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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                              COST   ESTIMATE

                                                                    May  8, 2015


                                 H.R.   1557
             Federal  Employee   Antidiscrimination Act of 2015

  As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
                               on March  25, 2015


H.R. 1557 would amend the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and
Retaliation Act to expand the current process used to investigate and resolve federal
employee claims of discrimination by federal employees. The bill also would expand the
amount of information that must be reported and made available concerning such
discrimination cases.

Based on information from the Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Equal
Employment  Opportunity Commission, most of the provisions in the bill would expand
current policies and practices of the federal government. Currently, the federal
government, through laws, regulations, and agency policies, prohibits discrimination in all
phases of employment. CBO expects that under the bill there would be some minor
additional costs for agencies to track and report discriminatory acts and to notify the public
of violations of antidiscrimination laws. Thus, CBO estimates that implementing
H.R. 1557 would increase federal administrative costs by less than $500,000 annually,
assuming the availability of appropriated funds.

Enacting H.R. 1557 could affect direct spending by some agencies (such as the Tennessee
Valley Authority) because they are authorized to use receipts from the sale of goods, fees,
and other collections to cover their operating costs. Therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures
apply. Because most of those agencies can make adjustments to the amounts collected,
CBO  estimates that any net changes in direct spending by those agencies would not be
significant. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.

H.R. 1557 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates  Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.

The CBO  staff contact for this estimate is Matthew Pickford. This estimate was approved
by Theresa Gullo, Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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