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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10155 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10155

 To amend section 7504 of title 31, United States Code, to improve the 
                       single audit requirements.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2024

Ms. Greene of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend section 7504 of title 31, United States Code, to improve the 
                       single audit requirements.

    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 ``Financial Management Risk Reduction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SINGLE AUDIT IMPROVEMENTS.

    Section 7504 of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) participate in and furnish information for the review 
        under subsection (e); and
            ``(4) identify recipients that expend $300,000 or more in 
        Federal awards or such other amount specified by the Director 
        under section 7502(a)(3) during the recipient's fiscal year but 
        did not undergo an audit in accordance with this chapter.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by adding ``and'' at the end;
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph 
                (2); and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, and every 2 years thereafter, the Director shall submit to 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House 
of Representatives a report listing the recipients identified under 
subsection (a)(4).
    ``(e)(1) The Director shall designate 1 or more Federal agencies to 
conduct a Government-wide analysis of single audit quality, which may 
include a consideration of the results of reviews of single audit 
quality by--
            ``(A) Federal agencies;
            ``(B) inspectors general of Federal agencies;
            ``(C) State auditors; and
            ``(D) external peer reviews conducted in accordance with 
        generally accepted government auditing standards.
    ``(2) Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, and every 6 years thereafter, the Federal agencies 
designated under paragraph (1) shall complete a Government-wide 
analysis of single audit quality.
    ``(3) The Director shall submit to the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives and make 
publicly available a summary of the results of each review under 
paragraph (2).
    ``(f) Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
subsection--
            ``(1) the Administrator of General Services, in 
        coordination with the Director, the Council on Federal 
        Financial Assistance (or any successor thereto), and key 
        management single audit liaisons of Federal agencies designated 
        as described in section 200.513 of title 2, Code of Federal 
        Regulations (or any successor thereto), shall develop analytic 
        tools to use audit data in the Federal clearinghouse to 
        identify cross-Governmental risks to Federal award funds; and
            ``(2) the Director, in coordination with the Administrator 
        of General Services, the Council on Federal Financial 
        Assistance (or any successor thereto), and key management 
        single audit liaisons of Federal agencies designated as 
        described in section 200.513 of title 2, Code of Federal 
        Regulations (or any successor thereto), shall develop a 
        strategy to use audit data in the Federal clearinghouse to 
        identify cross-Governmental risks to Federal award funds.
    ``(g) Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of this 
subsection, the Comptroller General of the United States shall complete 
an evaluation of--
            ``(1) the effectiveness of the strategy and analytic tools 
        developed under subsection (f);
            ``(2) reporting burdens for auditors and audited entities 
        and the capacity of auditors and audited entities to fulfill 
        the requirements under this chapter; and
            ``(3) the responsiveness of Federal agencies to repeat 
        single audit findings and corrective action plans.''.

SEC. 3. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS.

    No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act or the amendments made by this Act.
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