Cost Estimates Improvement Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5442 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5442

   To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide that any 
   estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint 
  Committee on Taxation shall include costs relating to servicing the 
                  public debt, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2026

  Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read 
           twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL

 
   To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide that any 
   estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint 
  Committee on Taxation shall include costs relating to servicing the 
                  public debt, 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 ``Cost Estimates Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. CBO AND JCT ESTIMATES TO INCLUDE DEBT SERVICING COSTS.

    (a) In General.--Part A of title IV of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:

              ``estimates to include debt servicing costs

    ``Sec. 407. Any estimate prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office under section 402, and any estimate 
prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation, shall include, to the 
extent practicable, the costs (if any) of servicing the public debt.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 406 
the following:

``407. Estimates to include debt servicing costs.''.
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