§623 — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

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The House and Senate Budget Committees must keep studying ways to make Congress’s budget process work better. They should look at ideas such as using pilot tests and surveys to get better data, finding better ways to judge existing programs, setting time limits for program authorizations, and measuring people and non‑money results as well as dollar costs. Each Budget Committee must report its findings and recommendations to its own House or Senate from time to time. Other House, Senate, or joint committees may also do similar studies.

Title 2, §623

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(a)The Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall study on a continuing basis proposals designed to improve and facilitate methods of congressional budgetmaking. The proposals to be studied shall include, but are not limited to, proposals for—

(1)improving the information base required for determining the effectiveness of new programs by such means as pilot testing, survey research, and other experimental and analytical techniques;

(2)improving analytical and systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of existing programs;

(3)establishing maximum and minimum time limitations for program authorization; and

(4)developing techniques of human resource accounting and other means of providing noneconomic as well as economic evaluation measures.

(b)The Committee on the Budget of each House shall, from time to time, report to its House the results of the study carried on by it under subsection (a), together with its recommendations.

(c)Nothing in this section shall preclude studies to improve the budgetary process by any other committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate or any joint committee of the Congress.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1303 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.

§623 Continuing Study of Additional Budget Reform Proposals

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