1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Duplication Scoring Act of 2023 . 2. Assessments of reported bills by GAO Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (i) (1) In this subsection— (A) the term covered bill or joint resolution means a bill or joint resolution of a public character reported by any committee of Congress (including the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget of either House); (B) the term Director means the Director of the Congressional Budget Office; (C) the term existing duplicative or overlapping feature means an element of the Federal Government previously identified as an area of duplication, overlap, or fragmentation in a GAO duplication and overlap report; (D) the term GAO duplication and overlap report means each annual report prepared by the Comptroller General under section 21 of the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution increasing the statutory limit on the public debt , approved February 12, 2010 ( 31 U.S.C. 712 note); and (E) the term new duplicative or overlapping feature means a new Federal program, office, or initiative created under a covered bill or joint resolution that would duplicate or overlap with an existing duplicative or overlapping feature. (2) For each covered bill or joint resolution— (A) the Comptroller General shall, to the extent practicable— (i) determine the extent to which the covered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if the risk so warrants, identify— (I) the name of the new Federal program, office, or initiative; (II) the section of the covered bill or joint resolution at which the new duplicative or overlapping feature is established; and (III) the GAO duplication and overlap report in which the existing duplicative or overlapping feature is identified; and (ii) submit the information described in clause (i) to the Director and the committee that reported the covered bill or joint resolution