Sec. 5. Analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of existing programs
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No committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives may report a bill or resolution authorizing the enactment of new budget authority for a program for which an authorization of new budget authority has previously been enacted until the committee has conducted an analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of the program for which continued new budget authority is proposed to be authorized. If the authorization of the enactment of new budget authority for any program is enacted for a period of less than 4 fiscal years, the analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of that program required by this section is only required before reporting legislation that would extend the authorization of the enactment of new budget authority for the fifth fiscal year commencing after the effective date of this Act and every 4 years thereafter.
The results of the analysis, appraisal, and evaluation under subsection
(a)shall be included in the committee report on the bill or resolution. Whenever a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives is conducting an analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of a program, the head of the agency which administers the program, or any part thereof, shall submit to the committee, upon request of the chairman or ranking member of the committee, an analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of the program. The committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives having jurisdiction of a program may conduct jointly the analysis, appraisal, and evaluation required by this section and may conduct joint hearings. The report of a committee on the analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of a program shall be sufficiently complete to permit a determination as to whether the program should be terminated, modified, or continued without change, and shall include— an identification of the objectives intended for the program and the problem or need which the program was intended to address; whether the program objectives are still relevant; whether the program has adhered to the original and intended purpose; whether the program has made any substantial progress toward meeting the objectives originally intended; the impact of the program on the economy; the feasibility of alternative programs and methods, including tax expenditures, for meeting the objectives of the program under consideration and their cost effectiveness; the relation of all other Government and private programs dealing with the objectives of the program under consideration, including tax expenditure programs; an examination of proposed legislation pending in either House seeking to achieve the same or related objectives; and whether the program should be extended and the further benefits that may be achieved thereby, including— an identification of the objectives intended for the program and the problem or the need that the program is intended to address; an assessment of the consequences of eliminating the program, of consolidating it with another program, or of funding it at a lower level; and an analysis of the services and performance estimated to be achieved if the program were continued, including an estimate of when, and the conditions under which, the program will have fulfilled the objectives for which the program was established. In preparing a report under paragraph (1), a committee shall evaluate— information in reports, plans, goals, and progress reviews required under sections 306 and 1115 through 1125 of title 31, United States Code; information in reports by the Comptroller General of the United States, including the annual report by the Comptroller General regarding opportunities to reduce duplication, overlap, and fragmentation, achieve savings, and enhance revenue; and other information determined appropriate by the committee. It shall not be in order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider a bill or resolution authorizing the enactment of new budget authority for a program for which an authorization of new budget authority has previously been enacted unless the bill or resolution is accompanied by a report described in paragraph (1). In the Senate, a point of order raised under this paragraph may be waived upon an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members duly chosen and sworn and debate on all motions to waive 1 or more points of order under this paragraph as to a bill or resolution shall be debatable for a total of not more than 1 hour, equally divided between the Senator raising the point of order and the Senator moving to waive the point of order or their designees. For the purposes of making the analysis, appraisal, and evaluation required by this section, a committee may combine related programs and may issue 1 report on all such combined programs.