S. 749: Honest Scoring Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-03-17 · Economics and Public Finance · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

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Where it came from: introduced 2015-03-17 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Honest Scoring Act of 2015

Plain summary

The Honest Scoring Act of 2015 This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to provide estimates of the macroeconomic effects of major legislation. These estimates are frequently referred to as dynamic scoring and include estimates of the budgetary effects from changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, interest rates, and other macroeconomic variables resulting from the legislation. The CBO and the JCT must provide the estimates for legislation that has a budgetary effect exceeding $15 billion in any fiscal year before incorporating macroeconomic effects, or is designated as major legislation by either the Chairman of the House Budget Committee or the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. The CBO and the JCT must also continue to provide estimates of budgetary effects without macroeconomic effects.

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Official text

Honest Scoring Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] · 0 cosponsors

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114s749.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/s>

Record fed-us-cong114-s749 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114