Legislation (S-924) offered in the Senate would continue the freeze on conducting new cost studies under OMB Circular A-76 while ordering several changes to the process. The ban, currently set to expire September 30, would be extended indefinitely until the policies were changed, and agencies would be required to determine if any inherently governmental work has been contracted out and bring it back in-house. For future studies, changes would be made to the cost comparison process designed to address what supporters call an imbalance in the calculations that favor contractor bids over in-house employees, automatic recompetitions of studies won by federal employees would be ended, and time limits would be more strictly enforced. Such proposals typically are not moved as separate legislation but rather are attached to spending bills; the primary sponsor, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., is on the Senate Appropriations Committee.