§ 623. — Continuing study of additional budget reform proposals.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC623]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 17A--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND FISCAL OPERATIONS
Sec. 623. Continuing study of additional budget reform proposals
(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) of this section, 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.
(Pub. L. 93-344, title VII, Sec. 703, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 326.)
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, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
