S. 2349 would direct the Office of Management and Budget to establish a working group to study federal efforts to collect data on sexual violence and to recommend ways for agencies to coordinate such work. The working group would have members from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Departments of Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice. The group would report its findings to the Congress within two years and terminate 30 days after the report is issued.
Using information about the costs of similar working groups and activities, CBO estimates that implementing S. 2349 would cost around $300,000 over the 2018-2020 period, assuming the availability of appropriated funds. CBO estimates each of the five agencies would devote about two month’s effort to this working group by a senior employee at a cost of $20,000 per month, and one junior employee at half of that cost.
Enacting S. 2349 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
CBO estimates that enacting S. 2349 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.
S. 2349 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
