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[S. 679 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.679

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four


                                 An Act


 
 To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to require Federal 
  agencies to submit to the Comptroller General of the United States a 
   report on rules that are revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or 
                       otherwise made ineffective.

    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 ``GAO Database Modernization Act of 
2023''.
SEC. 2. RULES NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
    (a) In General.--Section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(D) For any rule submitted under subparagraph (A), if the Federal 
agency promulgating the rule, in whole or in part, revokes, suspends, 
replaces, amends, or otherwise makes the rule ineffective, or the rule 
is made ineffective for any other reason, the Federal agency shall 
submit to the Comptroller General a report containing--
        ``(i) the title of the rule;
        ``(ii) the Federal Register citation for the rule, if any;
        ``(iii) the date on which rule was submitted to the Comptroller 
    General; and
        ``(iv) a description of the provisions of the rule that are 
    being revoked, suspended, replaced, amended, or otherwise made 
    ineffective.''.
    (b) Sunset.--Effective on the date that is 6 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, section 801(a)(1) of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking subparagraph (D), as added by subsection 
(a).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.