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handle is hein.crs/goverpy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Proposed Changes to Statutory Process for Reexamination of Congressional Reporting Requirements December 12, 2024 Congress frequently inserts text into a statute-or into a report accompanying legislation-that directs a federal government entity or official to provide information to audiences outside the entity's organizational boundaries. When Congress does this, the text is oftentimes called a reporting requirement. Reporting requirements are important tools available to Congress in fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities. In practice, Congress often employs reporting requirements to mandate submissions from entities and officials in all three branches of the federal government as a means to inform its study of issues, oversight, and lawmaking and for multiple additional purposes. While many reports are provided to Congress, sometimes Congress may also intend to make information available to audiences in addition to itself These audiences may include nonfederal stakeholders, personnel within one or more agencies, or the public. Congress may sometimes reexamine the usefulness of reporting requirements. In 2011, Congress established a formal, statutory process to facilitate reexamination of certain types of required reporting. This Insight describes that reexamination process, discusses how pending legislation in the 118t Congress (S. 2073, Title III/H.R. 5301) would alter that process, and identifies potential issues related to those changes. Identical versions of this legislation (apart from their titles) have passed both chambers as parts of different packages of provisions but have not become law. Processes Relating to Reporting Requirements Congress creates reporting requirements to direct federal agencies or officials to submit information to an audience on a contingent (i.e., when certain conditions occur), periodic, ongoing, or one-time basis. Reporting may be more efficient than negotiating for information from agencies on an as-needed basis. Reporting requirements tend to be established and modified in specific contexts, but Congress has also established general processes related to certain categories of requirements. Since 1822, the House of Representatives has required under its rules that a periodically updated list be maintained of reports required to be made to Congress as a whole. This publication does not include requirements for reports to Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12471 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Conaress

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