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HR8950119th Congress

REPORTS Act

Sponsored By: Representative Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]

Introduced

Summary

Would require agencies and the Comptroller General to analyze how major rules and large programs affect poverty and racial inequity. This bill would push detailed poverty and racial-equity checks into rulemaking and into annual program reviews to surface impacts and the potential racial wealth gap.

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  • Agencies would have to publish, with any Federal Register notice for a major rule, an analysis of the actual or potential effects on people living at, near, or below the poverty line and on racial inequity. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget would set the definitions agencies use for poverty line, racial inequity, and racial wealth gap for those analyses.
  • The Comptroller General would publish an electronic report starting one year after enactment and each year for nine years. Each report would examine 2 to 5 government programs or policies with substantial economic impact from the past five fiscal years and analyze their actual or potential effects on people in or near poverty and on racial inequity. Reports may include analysis of the racial wealth gap at the Comptroller General's discretion.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Agency rule analyses on poverty and race

If enacted, federal agencies would have to include an analysis with any proposed "major rule" notice in the Federal Register. The analysis would describe the actual or potential impact of the rule on people living at, near, or below the poverty line and on racial inequity. Agencies could choose whether to include a separate analysis of effects on the racial wealth gap. For these agency analyses, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget would define key terms like "poverty line," "racial inequity," and "racial wealth gap."

GAO annual reports on poverty and race

If enacted, the Comptroller General would publish one electronic report each year for ten years. The first report would come in the calendar year one year after enactment, and each report would study two to five government programs or policies that had a substantial economic impact in the past five fiscal years. Each report would assess the actual or potential impact of those programs or policies on people at, near, or below the poverty line and on racial inequity. The Comptroller General could also include analysis of the racial wealth gap and would define key terms for these reports.

Who defines poverty, rule terms

If enacted, the bill would use existing law to decide who counts as an "agency" and what is a "major rule" by adopting the meanings in 5 U.S.C. 551 and 5 U.S.C. 804. The Office of Management and Budget would define "poverty line," "racial inequity," and "racial wealth gap" for agency analyses. The Comptroller General would define those same terms for the GAO reports.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]

GA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Brown, Shontel M. [D-OH-11]

    OH • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-IL-1]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]

    AL • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Ivey, Glenn [D-MD-4]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. McIver, LaMonica [D-NJ-10]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 5/20/2026

  • Rep. Bell, Wesley [D-MO-1]

    MO • D

    Sponsored 6/22/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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