Regulatory Roundup - April 6-12
CBO
Cost Estimate
H.R. 1079, Desert Locust Control Act
April 9, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
on March 25, 2021
Cost Estimate
H.R. 1195, Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
April 9, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on March 24, 2021
Cost Estimate
H.R. 2008, Local Water Protection Act
April 9, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 24, 2021
Cost Estimate
April 9, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on March 24, 2021
Report
CBO’s Recent Publications and Work in Progress as of April 5, 2021
April 8, 2021
In this report, the latest in a quarterly series, CBO highlights its recent work and summarizes its work in progress.
Report
Monthly Budget Review: March 2021
April 8, 2021
The federal budget deficit was $1.7 trillion in the first six months of fiscal year 2021, CBO estimates—almost $1 trillion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last year.
Report
Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry
April 8, 2021
CBO assesses trends in spending for prescription drug research and development (R&D) and the introduction of new prescription drugs. CBO also examines factors that determine how much drug companies spend on R&D.
Report
April 7, 2021
CBO describes the key design considerations for a federally administered nongroup health insurance plan—often referred to as a public option—and some of their major implications.
Cost Estimate
H.R. 1262, Notice to Airmen Improvement Act of 2021
April 7, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 24, 2021
Cost Estimate
H.R. 256, To Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
April 7, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2021
Cost Estimate
April 7, 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
on March 24, 2021
Presentation
The Budget and Economic Outlook
April 7, 2021
Presentation by Jeffrey F. Werling, CBO’s Director of Macroeconomic Analysis, to the Society of Government Economists.
Cost Estimate
H.R. 1083, Southeast Asia Strategy Act
April 6, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2021
Cost Estimate
H.R. 468, Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act of 2021
April 6, 2021
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 24, 2021
Report
April 6, 2021
CBO estimates that the effects on revenues and mandatory spending of laws enacted in 2020 will add $2.8 trillion to deficits from 2020 to 2030—the net result of a $634 billion reduction in revenues and a $2.2 trillion increase in outlays.
Cost Estimate
April 6, 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
on March 10, 2021
Cost Estimate
April 6, 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021
Cost Estimate
S. 671, Federal Agency Customer Experience Act of 2021
April 6, 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021
Blog Post
CBO Updates Its Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Effects of Federal Minimum-Wage Increases
CBO updated its interactive tool that allows users to design options for increasing the minimum wage and to examine how they would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
Cost Estimate
H.R. 1065, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on March 24, 2021
Cost Estimate
H.R. 144, Supporting Early-Career Researchers Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on March 9, 2021
Interactive
How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income
This interactive tool allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
Cost Estimate
S. 272, Congressional Budget Justification Transparency Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021
Cost Estimate
S. 636, Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021
Cost Estimate
S. 658, National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 2021
Cost Estimate
S. 664, Duplication Scoring Act of 2021
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 17, 202
FASB
Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee [04/06/21]
March 25, 2021 Meeting Recap
GAO
Medicaid
CMS debe implementar supervisión basada en riesgos del proceso de adquisiciones de Puerto Rico
GAO-21-317SP
Published: Apr 07, 2021.
Publicly Released: Apr 07, 2021.
This is the Spanish language highlights associated with GAO-21-229
Military Readiness
Department of Defense Domain Readiness Varied from Fiscal Year 2017 through Fiscal Year 2019
GAO-21-279
Published: Apr 07, 2021.
Publicly Released: Apr 07, 2021.
What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) has developed a plan for readiness recovery—referred to as the Readiness Recovery Framework—which includes goals and metrics to assess progress in addressing primary readiness issues.
Depot Maintenance
DOD Should Improve Pandemic Plans and Publish Working Capital Fund Policy
GAO-21-103
Published: Apr 06, 2021.
Publicly Released: Apr 06, 2021
What GAO Found The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exacerbated productivity challenges Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force depots already faced, such as not having enough personnel to perform maintenance.
VA Health Care
Efforts Needed to Ensure Effective Use and Appropriate Staffing of Suicide Prevention Teams
GAO-21-326
Published: Apr 05, 2021.
Publicly Released: Apr 05, 2021.
What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses suicide prevention teams at local facilities to implement its Suicide Prevention Program, which was mandated by law in 2007.
Native American Cultural Resources
Improved Information Could Enhance Agencies' Efforts to Analyze and Respond to Risks of Theft and Damage
GAO-21-110
Published: Mar 04, 2021.
Publicly Released: Apr 05, 2021.
What GAO Found Seven federal agencies that GAO reviewed have taken a variety of approaches to help prevent and detect the theft and damage of Native American cultural resources on federal and Indian lands that may contain such resources.
Subminimum Wage Program
Factors Influencing the Transition of Individuals with Disabilities to Competitive Integrated Employment
GAO-21-260
Publicly Released: Apr 05, 2021.
What GAO Found GAO identified 32 factors that can influence the transition from 14(c) employment to competitive integrated employment (CIE).
IASB
April 2021 IFRIC meeting papers and agenda available
9 April 2021
Meeting
IR-2021-84, April 9, 2021 — The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 suspends the requirement that taxpayers increase their tax liability by all or a portion of their excess advance payments of the Premium Tax Credit (excess APTC) for tax year 2020.
IRS reminds foreign bank and financial account holders the FBAR deadline remains April 15
IR-2021-83, April 9, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service is reminding U.S. citizens, resident aliens and any domestic legal entity that the deadline to file their annual Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) is still April 15, 2021.
IRS urges participants of abusive micro-captive insurance arrangements to exit from arrangements
IR-2021-82, April 9, 2021 — Internal Revenue Service officials today urged participants in abusive micro-captive insurance arrangements to exit these transactions as soon as possible.
IR-2021-81, April 8, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service reminds eligible residents of the U.S. territories that if they receive unemployment compensation payments that are otherwise subject to U.S. income tax, they may be eligible to exclude up to $10,200 per person of unemployment compensation from U.S. income tax for 2020, following legislation that was passed March 11, 2021.
IRS announces several key executive changes as agency gears up to implement the Taxpayer First Act
IR-2021-80, April 8, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service today announced several key leadership appointments as work continues implementing major provisions of the Taxpayer First Act.
Treasury, IRS provide guidance on tax relief for deductions for food or beverages from restaurants
IR-2021-79, April 8, 2021 — The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today issued Notice 2021-25 providing guidance under the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Relief Act of 2020.
IRS reminds taxpayers to make April 15 estimated tax payment
IR-2021-78, April 8, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service today reminded self-employed individuals, retirees, investors, businesses, corporations, and others who pay their taxes quarterly that the payment for the first quarter of 2021 is due Thursday, April 15, 2021.
IRS, Treasury disburse 25 million more Economic Impact Payments under the American Rescue Plan
IR-2021-77, April 7, 2021 — Today, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service announced they are disbursing more than 25 million payments in the fourth batch of Economic Impact Payments from the American Rescue Plan.
IRS letters explain why some 2020 Recovery Rebate Credits are different than expected
IRS has refunds totaling $1.3 billion for people who have not filed a 2017 federal income tax return
NYS
GOVERNOR CUOMO DIRECTS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES TO EXTEND REGULATION REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO WAIVE CO-PAYS FOR COVID-19 VACCINE UNTIL APRIL 30
April 7, 2021
SEC
SEC Awards Approximately $2.5 Million to Whistleblower
2021-60., April 9, 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of approximately $2.5 million to a whistleblower whose information and ongoing assistance to the staff significantly contributed to the success of an SEC enforcement action.
SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze, Charges Actor with Operating a $690 Million Ponzi Scheme
2021-58C., April 6, 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief in an emergency enforcement action against Los Angeles-based actor Zachary Horwitz and his company, 1inMM (one in a million) Capital, LLC in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme that raised over $690 million. Horwitz and 1inMM allegedly told investors that they were buying film rights, purportedly to resell them to Netflix and HBO; in fact, 1inMM actually had no business relationship with either company.
SEC Issues Notice of Substituted Compliance Application and Proposed Substituted Compliance Order for United Kingdom and Reopens Comment Period for Notice and Proposed Substituted Compliance Order for France
2021-57, April 5, 2021 —The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to take two actions to continue to advance implementation of security-based swap regulation under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Commission is publishing a notice of application and proposed substituted compliance order in response to an application from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). In addition, the Commission is re-opening the comment period on the notice of application and proposed substituted compliance order in relation to the application by France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR).
Auditor Charged for Failure to Register with PCAOB and Multiple Audit Failure
2021-56, April 5, 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the institution of administrative proceedings against a Texas-based CPA for allegedly failing to register his firm with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and alleged wholesale failures in auditing and reviewing the financial statements of a public company client.
SEC Promotes Investor Awareness During National Financial Capability Month
2021-55, April 5, 2021 —The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) is embracing National Financial Capability Month as an opportunity to encourage all investors, especially first-timers or those relatively new to investing, to take the time to visit Investor.gov and utilize an array of resources to help them get acclimated.