Paperwork and Regulatory Improvements Act of 2004

Summary

Paperwork and Regulatory Improvements Act of 2003 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in minimizing the Federal information collection burden, to assign the equivalent of at least two full-time staffers to review the burden on the public imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal specified exemptions from Paperwork Reduction Act requirements and certain other rulemaking requirements. Amends the Truth in Regulating Act of 2000 to make permanent the authority of a chairman or ranking member of a congressional committee to request the Comptroller General to perform a regulatory analysis of an economically significant rule upon agency publication. Amends the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 to: (1) instruct the Director of OMB to require each agency annually to submit an estimate of the total annual costs and benefits of Federal rules and paperwork for the agency and each agency program for the fiscal year of submission and each of the four succeeding fiscal years and for the current fiscal year and the prior fiscal year; and (2) include such accounting statement and associated report as part of the Federal budget submitted to the President, in a form that allows direct comparison of the budget for Government activities and functions with the costs and benefits to the public of associated Federal rules and paperwork. Requires the Director to designate at least five agencies as pilot projects in regulatory budgeting for FY 2006 and 2007. Includes the regulatory budgets of the designated agencies as an alternative budget presentation in the Government's budget for FY 2007.

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 18 May 2004

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN · 14 May 2004

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• Reported in House (PDF)

  Reported in House · EN · 14 May 2004

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• Reported to House amended, Part I

  summary · EN · 14 May 2004

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 11 June 2003

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 11 June 2003

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 June 2003

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