[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2523 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2523

  To condition the disbursement of Federal funds to any State on such 
 State establishing a department, agency, or commission of government 
                  efficiency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2025

  Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To condition the disbursement of Federal funds to any State on such 
 State establishing a department, agency, or commission of government 
                  efficiency, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``State-Level Departments of 
Government Efficiency Establishment Act'' or the ``State-Level DOGE 
Establishment Act''.

SEC. 2. CONDITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING TO STATES.

    (a) Condition.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, no 
        discretionary appropriations may be disbursed to any State 
        unless such State has established an entity described in 
        subsection (b).
            (2) Exception.--For purposes of paragraph (1), the term 
        ``discretionary appropriations'' does not include any 
        discretionary appropriations within the security category (as 
        that term is defined in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)).
    (b) State-Level Doge Agency.--Each State shall establish and 
maintain a department, agency, or commission of government efficiency 
to review the efficacy of the State's administration of Federal funding 
and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. Such a 
department, agency, or commission shall--
            (1) be comprised of at least 10 members and not more than 
        20 members;
            (2) have an equal number of members of the majority party 
        and the minority party in the State's Legislature; and
            (3) publish, on the State's public website, and submit to 
        the Department of Government Efficiency within the Executive 
        Office of the President, an annual report that--
                    (A) details the entity's work to review the 
                efficacy of the State's administration of Federal 
                funding and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of 
                taxpayer funds; and
                    (B) provides legislative and operational 
                suggestions and recommendations to improve the 
                efficiency of the expenditure of Federal funds.
    (c) State Defined.--In this section, the term ``State'' means each 
of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each territory of 
the United States.
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