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Union Calendar No. 539 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5047 

[Report No. 116–655] 

To require the Administrator of General Services to conduct an annual audit 

of properties leased to private parties, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 12, 2019 

Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself and Ms. TITUS) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

DECEMBER 16, 2020 

Additional sponsors: Ms. NORTON and Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas 

DECEMBER 16, 2020 

Reported from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 

and ordered to be printed 


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A BILL 

To require the Administrator of General Services to conduct 

an annual audit of properties leased to private parties, 

and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘GSA Lease Trans5 parency Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ANNUAL AUDIT. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, 

8 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

9 following: 

10 ‘‘§ 625. Annual audit of leases 

11 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 

12 date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 

13 the Administrator of General Services shall complete an 

14 audit, in compliance with generally accepted government 

15 accounting standards, of covered leases. 

16 ‘‘(b) CONTENT OF AUDIT.—The audit shall deter17 mine whether the Federal Government has received all 

18 rent, revenues, and anything of value due in accordance 

19 with the provisions of each covered lease. 

20 ‘‘(c) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 30 days after the 

21 date of completion of an audit, the Administrator of Gen22 eral Services shall submit to the Committee on Transpor23 tation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 

24 and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of 

25 the Senate the audit and a report on such audit. 


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1 ‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL AUDIT REQUIREMENT FOR

2 LEASES.—With respect to any covered lease that takes ef3 fect on or after the date of enactment of this section, the 

4 Administrator shall require that such a lease contains 

5 audit rights for the Administrator and the Inspector Gen6 eral of the General Services Administration. 

7 ‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the following defi8 nition applies: 

9 ‘‘(1) COVERED LEASE.—The term ‘covered 

10 lease’ means an active lease of space in a Federal 

11 building in which at least 20 percent of such build12 ing is leased to any entity pursuant to any provision 

13 of law, including— 

14 ‘‘(A) section 543; 

15 ‘‘(B) section 581; 

16 ‘‘(C) sections 306121 and 306122 of title 

17 54, United States Code; and 

18 ‘‘(D) Public Law 108–447 (108 Stat. 2809 

19 et seq.).’’. 

20 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of chap21 ters for chapter 5 of subtitle I of title 40, United States 

22 Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to sec23 tion 624 the following new item: 

‘‘625. Annual audit of leases.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 539 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5047 

[Report No. 116–655] 

A BILL 

To require the Administrator of General Services to 

private parties, and for other purposes. conduct an annual audit of properties leased to 

DECEMBER 16, 2020 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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