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Union Calendar No. 193 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2061 

[Report No. 113–270] 

To expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 

2006 to increase accountability and transparency in Federal spending, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 21, 2013 

Mr. ISSA (for himself and Mr. CUMMINGS) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

NOVEMBER 18, 2013 

Additional sponsors: Mr. RENACCI, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. 

FARENTHOLD, Mr. POLIS, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. 

QUIGLEY, and Mr. HONDA

NOVEMBER 18, 2013 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 21, 2013] 


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A BILL 

To expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to increase accountability and transparency in Federal spending, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

7 this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

Sec. 2. Purposes. 

Sec. 3. Amendments to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 

Act of 2006. 

Sec. 4. Pilot program to evaluate consolidated recipient reporting. 

Sec. 5. Classified and protected information. 

Sec. 6. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 amendments. 

Sec. 7. Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 amendments. 

Sec. 8. Executive agency accounting and other financial management reports and 

plans. 

8 SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 

9 The purposes of this Act are to— 

10 (1) expand the Federal Funding Accountability 

11 and Transparency Act of 2006 by disclosing direct 

12 Federal agency expenditures and linking Federal con13 tract, loan, and grant spending information to pro14 grams of Federal agencies in order to enable tax15 payers and policy makers to track Federal spending 

16 more effectively; 

17 (2) provide consistent, reliable, and searchable 

18 Government-wide spending data that is displayed ac19 curately for taxpayers and policy makers on 

20 USASpending.gov; 


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1 (3) analyze Federal spending data to proactively 

2 prevent waste, fraud, abuse, and improper payments; 

3 (4) simplify reporting for entities receiving Fed4 eral funds by streamlining reporting requirements 

5 and reducing compliance costs while improving trans6 parency; and 

7 (5) improve the quality of data submitted to 

8 USASpending.gov by holding Federal agencies ac9 countable for the completeness and accuracy of the 

10 data submitted. 

11 SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL FUNDING AC12 COUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 

13 2006. 

14 Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

15 Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amend16 ed— 

17 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘FULL

18 DISCLOSURE OF ENTITIES RECEIVING FEDERAL

19 FUNDING’’ and inserting ‘‘DISCLOSURE OF FED20 ERAL FUNDING’’; 

21 (2) in subsection (a)— 

22 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 

23 (3) as paragraphs (3) and (7), respectively; 

24 (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol25 lowing new paragraph (2): 


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1 ‘‘(2) FEDERAL AGENCY.—The term ‘Federal 

2 agency’ has the meaning given the term ‘Executive 

3 agency’ under section 105 of title 5, United States 

4 Code.’’; 

5 (C) by inserting after paragraph (3), as re6 designated by subparagraph (A), the following 

7 new paragraphs: 

8 ‘‘(4) FEDERAL FUNDS.—The term ‘Federal 

9 funds’ means any funds that are made available to or 

10 expended by a Federal agency. 

11 ‘‘(5) OBJECT CLASS.—The term ‘object class’ 

12 means the category assigned for purposes of the an13 nual budget of the President submitted under section 

14 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to the type 

15 of property or services purchased by the Federal Gov16 ernment. 

17 ‘‘(6) PROGRAM ACTIVITY.—The term ‘program 

18 activity’ has the meaning given that term under sec19 tion 1115(h) of title 31, United States Code.’’; and 

20 (D) in paragraph (7), as redesignated by 

21 subparagraph (A)— 

22 (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

23 ‘‘paragraph (2)(A)(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘para24 graph (3)(A)(i)’’; and 


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1 (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

2 ‘‘paragraph (2)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting 

3 ‘‘paragraph (3)(A)(ii)’’; 

4 (3) in subsection (b)— 

5 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

6 (i) by striking ‘‘the Office of Manage7 ment and Budget’’ and inserting ‘‘the Sec8 retary of the Treasury’’ each place it ap9 pears; 

10 (ii) in subparagraph (F)— 

11 (I) in clause (i), by redesignating 

12 subclauses (I) and (II) as items (aa) 

13 and (bb), respectively; 

14 (II) by redesignating clauses (i) 

15 and (ii) as subclauses (I) and (II); and 

16 (III) by striking the period at the 

17 end of subclause (II) as so redesignated 

18 and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 

19 (iii) by redesignating subparagraphs 

20 (A) through (G) as clauses (i) through (vii), 

21 respectively, and adjusting the margin ac22 cordingly; 

23 (iv) by striking ‘‘for each Federal 

24 award—’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘for 

25 all Federal funds— 


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1 ‘‘(A) for each Federal agency, component of 

2 a Federal agency, appropriations account, pro3 gram activity, and object class (including any 

4 subcomponent of an object class), and other ac5 counts or data as appropriate— 

6 ‘‘(i) the amount of budget authority 

7 available; 

8 ‘‘(ii) the amount obligated; 

9 ‘‘(iii) the amount of outlays; 

10 ‘‘(iv) the amount of any Federal funds 

11 reprogrammed or transferred; and 

12 ‘‘(v) the amount of expired and unex13 pired unobligated balances; and 

14 ‘‘(B) for each Federal award—’’; and 

15 (v) in subparagraph (B)(iii), as so des16 ignated by this subparagraph, by inserting 

17 ‘‘, which shall be assigned a unique identi18 fier,’’ after ‘‘information on the award’’; 

19 (B) in paragraph (3)— 

20 (i) by striking ‘‘The Director of the Of21 fice of Management and Budget’’ and in22 serting ‘‘The Secretary of the Treasury’’; 

23 and 

24 (ii) by striking ‘‘the Director’’ and in25 serting ‘‘the Secretary’’; 


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1 (C) in paragraph (4)— 

2 (i) by striking ‘‘the Director of the Of3 fice of Management and Budget’’ and in4 serting ‘‘the Secretary of the Treasury’’; and 

5 (ii) by striking ‘‘the Director’’ and in6 serting ‘‘the Secretary’’, each place it ap7 pears; and 

8 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(5) APPLICATION OF DATA STANDARDS.—The 

10 Secretary of the Treasury shall apply the data stand11 ards established under subsection (e) to all data col12 lection, data dissemination, and data publication re13 quired under this section. 

14 ‘‘(6) DATA FEED TO RECOVERY ACCOUNTABILITY

15 AND TRANSPARENCY BOARD.—The Secretary of the 

16 Treasury shall provide the data described in para17 graph (1) to the Recovery Accountability and Trans18 parency Board so that it can be included in the Re19 covery Operations Center described in subsection 

20 (h).’’; 

21 (4) in subsection (c)— 

22 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

23 (i) in the matter preceding subpara24 graph (A), by striking ‘‘and Grants.gov’’ 

25 and inserting ‘‘Grants.gov, the Payment 


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1 Automation Manager and Financial Infor2 mation Repository and other data or data3 bases from the Department of the Treasury, 

4 the MAX Information System of the Office 

5 of Management and Budget, and other data 

6 from Federal agencies collected and identi7 fied by the Office of Management and Budg8 et’’; 

9 (ii) in subparagraph (B), by adding 

10 ‘‘and’’ at the end; and 

11 (iii) by adding at the end the fol12 lowing: 

13 ‘‘(C) specify such search shall be confined to 

14 Federal funds;’’; 

15 (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘the 

16 Payment Automation Manager and Financial 

17 Information Repository and other data or data18 bases from the Department of the Treasury, the 

19 MAX Information System of the Office of Man20 agement and Budget, other data from Federal 

21 agencies collected and identified by the Office of 

22 Management and Budget,’’ after ‘‘Grants.gov 

23 website,’’; 

24 (C) in paragraph (4)— 


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1 (i) by striking ‘‘shall be updated not 

2 later’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘shall be 

3 updated— 

4 ‘‘(A) not later’’; and 

5 (ii) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(B) not less than once each quarter with 

7 information relating to Federal funds;’’; 

8 (D) in paragraph (5)— 

9 (i) by inserting ‘‘Federal funds and’’ 

10 before ‘‘Federal awards’’ the first place it 

11 appears; 

12 (ii) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)(2)(A)(i) 

13 and those described in subsection 

14 (a)(2)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 

15 (a)(3)(A)(i) and those described in sub16 section (a)(3)(A)(ii)’’; and 

17 (iii) by striking the period at the end 

18 and inserting a semicolon; and 

19 (E) by adding at the end the following: 

20 ‘‘(6) shall have the ability to aggregate data for 

21 the categories described in paragraphs (1) through (5) 

22 without double-counting data; and 

23 ‘‘(7) shall permit all information published 

24 under this section to be downloaded in bulk.’’; 


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1 (5) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) 

2 as subsections (i), (j), and (k), respectively; and 

3 (6) by inserting after subsection (d) the following 

4 new subsections: 

5 ‘‘(e) DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY REQUIREMENTS

6 FOR DATA STANDARDS.— 

7 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treas8 ury, in consultation with the Director of the Office of 

9 Management and Budget, the Administrator of Gen10 eral Services, and the heads of Federal agencies, shall 

11 establish Government-wide financial data standards 

12 for Federal funds, which shall— 

13 ‘‘(A) include common data elements, such as 

14 codes, unique award identifiers, and fields, for 

15 financial and payment information required to 

16 be reported by Federal agencies and entities re17 ceiving Federal funds, including identifiers for 

18 Federal awards and entities receiving Federal 

19 awards; 

20 ‘‘(B) to the extent reasonable and prac21 ticable, ensure interoperability and incor22 porate— 

23 ‘‘(i) common data elements developed 

24 and maintained by an international vol25 untary consensus standards body, as defined 


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1 by the Office of Management and Budget, 

2 such as the International Organization for 

3 Standardization; 

4 ‘‘(ii) common data elements developed 

5 and maintained by Federal agencies with 

6 authority over contracting and financial as7 sistance, such as the Federal Acquisition 

8 Regulatory Council; and 

9 ‘‘(iii) common data elements developed 

10 and maintained by accounting standards 

11 organizations; and 

12 ‘‘(C) include data reporting standards 

13 that— 

14 ‘‘(i) incorporate a widely accepted, 

15 nonproprietary, searchable, platform-inde16 pendent computer-readable format; 

17 ‘‘(ii) are consistent with and imple18 ment applicable accounting principles; 

19 ‘‘(iii) are capable of being continually 

20 upgraded as necessary; 

21 ‘‘(iv) are structured to specifically sup22 port the reporting of financial and perform23 ance-related data, such as that any data 

24 produced, regardless of reporting need or 

25 software used for creation or consumption, 


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1 is consistent and comparable across report2 ing situations; 

3 ‘‘(v) establish, for each data point, a 

4 standard method of conveying the reporting 

5 period, reporting entity, unit of measure, 

6 and other associated attributes; and 

7 ‘‘(vi) incorporate nonproprietary 

8 standards in effect on the date of enactment 

9 of the Digital Accountability and Trans10 parency Act of 2013. 

11 ‘‘(2) DEADLINES.— 

12 ‘‘(A) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary of the 

13 Treasury, in consultation with the Director of 

14 the Office of Management and Budget, shall issue 

15 guidance on the data standards established under 

16 paragraph (1) to Federal agencies not later than 

17 1 year after the date of enactment of the Digital 

18 Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013. 

19 ‘‘(B) WEBSITE.—Not later than 1 year after 

20 the date on which the guidance under clause (i) 

21 is issued, the Secretary of the Treasury shall en22 sure that the website required under this section 

23 makes data publicly available in accordance 

24 with the data standards established under para25 graph (1). 


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1 ‘‘(C) AGENCIES.—Not later than 180 days 

2 after the date on which the guidance under sub3 paragraph (A) is issued, each Federal agency 

4 shall collect, report, and maintain data in ac5 cordance with the data standards established 

6 under paragraph (1). 

7 ‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of the 

8 Treasury shall consult with public and private stake9 holders in establishing data standards under this sub10 section. 

11 ‘‘(f) CONSOLIDATED RECIPIENT FINANCIAL RE12 PORTS.—The Director of the Office of Management and 

13 Budget shall— 

14 ‘‘(1) review the financial reporting required by 

15 Federal agencies for Federal award recipients to con16 solidate financial reporting and reduce duplicative fi17 nancial reporting and compliance costs for recipients; 

18 ‘‘(2) request input from Federal award recipients 

19 to reduce duplicative financial reporting, especially 

20 from State and local governments and institutions of 

21 higher education; 

22 ‘‘(3) not later than 1 year after the date of enact23 ment of the Digital Accountability and Transparency 

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1 quirements for Federal award recipients to consoli2 date financial reporting, reduce duplicative reporting, 

3 and reduce compliance costs, as appropriate; and 

4 ‘‘(4) not later than 18 months after the date of 

5 enactment of the Digital Accountability and Trans6 parency Act of 2013, submit to Congress a report re7 garding any legislative action required to consolidate, 

8 streamline, or reduce the cost of reporting require9 ments for Federal award recipients. 

10 ‘‘(g) ACCOUNTABILITY FOR FEDERAL FUNDING.— 

11 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

12 the date of enactment of the Digital Accountability 

13 and Transparency Act of 2013, and every 2 years 

14 thereafter until the date that is 6 years after such 

15 date of enactment, the Inspector General of each Fed16 eral agency, in consultation with the Comptroller 

17 General of the United States, shall review a sampling 

18 of the data submitted under this Act by the agency, 

19 and shall submit to Congress and make publicly 

20 available a report on the completeness, timeliness, 

21 quality, and accuracy of the data sampled and the 

22 implementation and use of consistent data standards 

23 by the Federal agency. 

24 ‘‘(2) COMPTROLLER GENERAL.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years 

2 after the date of enactment of the Digital Ac3 countability and Transparency Act of 2013, and 

4 every 2 years thereafter until the date that is 6 

5 years after such date of enactment, and after re6 view of the reports submitted under paragraph 

7 (1), the Comptroller General of the United States 

8 shall submit to Congress and make publicly 

9 available a report on the completeness, timeli10 ness, quality, and accuracy of the data submitted 

11 under this Act by each Federal agency and the 

12 implementation and use of consistent data 

13 standards by each Federal agency. 

14 ‘‘(B) RANKING.—The Comptroller General 

15 of the United States shall make available a rank16 ing of Federal agencies regarding data quality, 

17 accuracy, and compliance with this Act. 

18 ‘‘(h) RECOVERY ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

19 BOARD.— 

20 ‘‘(1) RESOURCES AND MECHANISMS.—The Recov21 ery Accountability and Transparency Board shall de22 velop and test information technology resources and 

23 oversight mechanisms to enhance the transparency of 

24 and detect and remediate waste, fraud, and abuse in 

25 Federal spending for Inspectors General. 


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1 ‘‘(2) WEBSITE.—The Recovery Accountability 

2 and Transparency Board shall maintain a website 

3 informing the public of its activities to identify waste, 

4 fraud, and abuse and increase transparency of Fed5 eral funds to provide support for Inspectors General. 

6 ‘‘(3) RECOVERY OPERATIONS CENTER.—The Re7 covery Accountability and Transparency Board shall 

8 establish and maintain a Recovery Operations Center 

9 as a government-wide Internet-based data access sys10 tem to carry out the functions described in paragraph 

11 (4). 

12 ‘‘(4) FUNCTIONS OF THE RECOVERY OPERATIONS

13 CENTER.—The functions referred to in paragraph (3) 

14 are the following: 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Recovery Oper16 ations Center shall incorporate— 

17 ‘‘(i) all information described in sub18 section (b)(1); 

19 ‘‘(ii) other information maintained by 

20 Federal, State, local, and foreign govern21 ment agencies; and 

22 ‘‘(iii) other commercially and publicly 

23 available information. 


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1 ‘‘(B) SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS.—The Recovery 

2 Operations Center shall be designed and operated 

3 to carry out the following functions: 

4 ‘‘(i) Combine information described in 

5 subsection (b)(1) with other compilations of 

6 information, including those listed in sub7 paragraph (A). 

8 ‘‘(ii) Permit agencies, in accordance 

9 with applicable law, to detect and remediate 

10 waste, fraud, and abuse.’’. 

11 SEC. 4. PILOT PROGRAM TO EVALUATE CONSOLIDATED RE12 CIPIENT REPORTING. 

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

14 date of enactment of this Act, the Recovery Accountability 

15 and Transparency Board, in consultation with the Sec16 retary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of 

17 Management and Budget, shall establish a pilot program 

18 relating to reporting by recipients of Federal funds (in this 

19 section referred to as the ‘‘pilot program’’) for the purpose 

20 of increasing financial transparency to— 

21 (1) display the full cycle of Federal funds; 

22 (2) improve the accuracy of Federal financial 

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1 dating and automating financial reporting require2 ments across the Federal Government. 

3 (b) REQUIREMENTS.—The pilot program shall— 

4 (1) include recipients that collectively receive not 

5 less than $1,000,000,000 in Federal funds each fiscal 

6 year; 

7 (2) include recipients that receive Federal funds 

8 under multiple programs across multiple agencies; 

9 and 

10 (3) include recipients that collectively receive 

11 Federal funds under contracts, grants, and sub12 awards. 

13 (c) REPORTING AND EVALUATION REQUIREMENTS.— 

14 Each recipient of Federal funds participating in the pilot 

15 program shall submit to the Recovery Accountability and 

16 Transparency Board reports on the finances of the selected 

17 Federal awards. 

18 (d) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION.—All the informa19 tion collected by the Recovery Accountability and Trans20 parency Board under the pilot program shall be made pub21 licly available and searchable on the website established 

22 under section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

23 Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 

24 (e) TERMINATION.—The pilot program shall terminate 

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1 covery Accountability and Transparency Board establishes 

2 the pilot program. 

3 (f) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 

4 on which the pilot program terminates under subsection (e), 

5 the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board shall 

6 submit to the Office of Management and Budget, the Com7 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 

8 the Senate, and the Committee on Oversight and Govern9 ment Reform of the House of Representatives a report on 

10 the pilot program, which shall include— 

11 (1) a description of financial data collected 

12 under the pilot program, the accuracy of the data 

13 provided, and the cost to collect the data from recipi14 ents; and 

15 (2) recommendations for— 

16 (A) consolidating some or all aspects of 

17 Federal financial reporting to reduce the costs to 

18 recipients of Federal funds; 

19 (B) automating some or all aspects of Fed20 eral financial reporting to increase efficiency 

21 and reduce the costs to recipients of Federal 

22 funds; and 

23 (C) improving financial transparency. 

24 (g) GOVERNMENT-WIDE IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later 

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1 ment and Budget receives the report required by subsection 

2 (f), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

3 shall determine whether to authorize the Recovery Account4 ability and Transparency Board to extend the recipient re5 porting requirements of the pilot program to all Federal 

6 funds. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency 

7 Board shall begin requiring Government-wide recipient re8 porting at the start of the fiscal year that commences after 

9 the fiscal year during which such authorization is granted, 

10 and under such terms and conditions that the Board shall 

11 determine, in consultation with the Director. 

12 SEC. 5. CLASSIFIED AND PROTECTED INFORMATION. 

13 Section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 

14 Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amend15 ed to read as follows: 

16 ‘‘SEC. 3. CLASSIFIED AND PROTECTED INFORMATION. 

17 ‘‘Nothing in this Act shall require the disclosure to the 

18 public or to any person without an identifiable need to 

19 know— 

20 ‘‘(1) information protected under section 552 of 

21 title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the 

22 ‘Freedom of Information Act’); or 

23 ‘‘(2) information protected under section 552a of 

24 title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the 


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1 ‘Privacy Act of 1974’), or section 6103 of the Internal 

2 Revenue Code of 1986.’’. 

3 SEC. 6. AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 

4 2009 AMENDMENTS. 

5 Division A of Public Law 111–5 is amended— 

6 (1) in section 1501 of title XV, by striking para7 graph (4) and inserting the following: 

8 ‘‘(4) COVERED FUNDS.—The term ‘covered 

9 funds’— 

10 ‘‘(A) except as provided in subparagraph 

11 (B), means any funds that are expended or obli12 gated from appropriations made under this Act; 

13 and 

14 ‘‘(B) for purposes of sections 1522 and 

15 1524, means funds that are expended or obli16 gated by an agency from appropriations made 

17 under this or any other Act.’’; 

18 (2) in section 1512 of title XV, by adding at the 

19 end the following: 

20 ‘‘(i) EXPIRATION.—The requirements in this section 

21 shall expire on September 30, 2013.’’; 

22 (3) in section 1523 of title XV, by adding at the 

23 end the following: 

24 ‘‘(d) EXPIRATION.—The requirements in this section 

25 shall expire on September 30, 2013.’’; 


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1 (4) in section 1526 of title XV, by adding at the 

2 end the following: 

3 ‘‘(e) EXPIRATION.—The requirements in this section 

4 shall expire on September 30, 2013.’’; and 

5 (5) in section 1530 of title XV, by striking ‘‘Sep6 tember 30, 2013.’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 

7 2017.’’. 

8 SEC. 7. DISASTER RELIEF APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 2013 

9 AMENDMENTS. 

10 Division A of Public Law 113–2 is amended in section 

11 904(d)— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘for purposes related to the im13 pact of Hurricane Sandy’’; 

14 (2) by striking ‘‘related to the impact of Hurri15 cane Sandy’’ after ‘‘receiving appropriations’’; and 

16 (3) by striking ‘‘related to funds appropriated 

17 for the impact of Hurricane Sandy’’ after ‘‘on its ac18 tivities’’. 

19 SEC. 8. EXECUTIVE AGENCY ACCOUNTING AND OTHER FI20 NANCIAL MANAGEMENT REPORTS AND 

21 PLANS. 

22 Section 3512(a) of title 31, United States Code, is 

23 amended— 

24 (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and make 

25 available on the website described under section 1122 


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1 of this title’’ after ‘‘appropriate committees of the 

2 Congress’’; 

3 (2) in paragraph (3)(B)(vi), by inserting ‘‘, sys4 tem development, financial management workforce de5 velopment, related risk assessment and mitigation for 

6 the Federal Government as a whole, related risk as7 sessment and mitigation for executive agencies, devel8 opment of capacity to prevent and detect fraud,’’ after 

9 ‘‘equipment acquisitions’’; and 

10 (3) in paragraph (4), by adding at the end the 

11 following: 

12 ‘‘(C) Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 

13 of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 

14 2013, and every 90 days thereafter, the Director shall make 

15 available on the website described under section 1122 of this 

16 title a report regarding— 

17 ‘‘(i) specific goals for the most recent full fiscal 

18 year, the fiscal year during which the report is sub19 mitted, and the fiscal year following the year during 

20 which the report is submitted that are necessary steps 

21 toward implementing the Federal Funding Account22 ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 

23 6101 note) fully and in an effective, efficient, and ac24 curate manner; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) the status and progress achieved toward 

2 each goal described in clause (i), including any 

3 changes to the cost, schedule, or performance baselines 

4 of achieving each goal, using earned value manage5 ment where appropriate.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 193 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2061 

[Report No. 113–270] 

A BILL 

To expand the Federal Funding Accountability and 

and for other purposes. ability and transparency in Federal spending, Transparency Act of 2006 to increase accountNOVEMBER 18, 2013 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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