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- Report
CBO reviews hundreds of bills and public laws for intergovernmental and private-sector mandates each year and estimates whether the annual costs of those mandates would exceed thresholds established in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. Data are available for calendar years 2013 through 2019, and new data are added periodically throughout the year.
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, chief of the scorekeeping unit in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, and David Torregrosa, an analyst in CBO’s Financial Analysis Division, at the Southern Economic Association’s Annual Meetings.
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, chief of scorekeeping in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Budget Line of Business’s Fall Forum.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 25, 2019
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 25, 2019
- Report
CBO examines choices lawmakers would face in establishing a federal tax on the miles traveled by commercial trucks—including choices about the tax base, rate structure, and implementation methods—and illustrates how such a tax might affect the federal budget.
- Working Paper
The costs of federal activities are recorded in the budget mostly on a cash basis. Using accrual accounting for retirement and insurance programs would accelerate the recognition of long-term costs and display the expected costs of new commitments when they were incurred.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 25, 2019
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, chief of the scorekeeping unit in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, and David Torregrosa, an analyst in CBO’s Financial Analysis Division, at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
- Presentation
Presentation by Justin Riordan, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the annual conference of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.