HR-3446, would modify the process used to develop consent decrees and settlement agreements that compel federal agencies to take specified regulatory actions. Image: Raymond Well/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe Congressional Budget Office has issued cost estimates on several bills recently advanced out of the House and Senate committees dealing with federal workplace issues, readying them for floor voting.
One, HR-3446, would modify the process used to develop consent decrees and settlement agreements that compel federal agencies to take specified regulatory actions. A summary of all such complaints against federal agencies, the terms of covered agreements, and awards of attorneys’ fees would need to be published in an electronic format and would be subject to public comment prior to filing with federal courts.
It also would require that negotiations over covered actions be conducted through mediation or alternative dispute resolution programs and would require federal agencies to submit reports to Congress describing the statutory basis and details of the agreements into which they enter. Further, agencies would need to certify to courts their approval of those agreements, and if they seek modifications of an agreement, courts would be required to perform a complete review as if the modified agreement were a new one.
Estimates also were issued on:
* S-2032, to target legacy IT systems in use by federal agencies by requiring agencies to develop an inventory of such systems, craft modernization plans to update or dispose of it, under guidance from OMB.
* HR-4428, to require agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that such guidance does not have the force and effect of law and is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies.
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