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119-hr-2101119th Congress

Duplicative Grant Consolidation Act

Sponsored By: Representative Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]

Introduced

Summary

The Duplicative Grant Consolidation Act would create a system to stop duplicative federal grant awards. It would set rules to block duplicate or fraudulent applications and require a centralized electronic tracking and deconfliction tool run by the Office of Management and Budget.

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  • Researchers and institutions would face pre-award checks that can block an award if they already have a grant for the same purpose from a different executive agency. The bill carves out an exception for institutions of higher education.
  • Agency heads and inspectors general would use a joint process to decide which agency should fund overlapping proposals. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget would have 1 year to build an electronic tracking and deconfliction system that includes awardee name, principal investigator, award period, agency contact, and an abstract.
  • Awards would be barred to applicants found to have submitted fraudulent applications. The Director of OMB would also report on the feasibility of using artificial intelligence to spot duplicate applications and identify waste, fraud, and abuse, consulting Energy, NSF, and NIST officials.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

New system to spot duplicate grants

If enacted, OMB would have to launch an online grant-check system within one year. Agency leaders and Inspectors General would use it to find duplicate or overlapping applications before awards and during audits. Each entry would list the awardee, principal investigator, award period, an agency contact, and an abstract. It would cover federal research awards and flag the same or closely related research sent to one or more agencies. Applications filed after the system starts, and older awards still spending money then, would be checked until spending ends.

Limits on duplicate or fraudulent grants

If enacted, most grant applicants could not get a second grant for the same purpose from another agency. Agencies would also have to deny grants to applicants found to have submitted a fraudulent application. Colleges and universities would be exempt from the duplicate-award bar. If two agencies get the same application, their leaders would decide together which, if any, should award it. These limits would take effect on enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]

OK • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 3/14/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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