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Union Calendar No. 58 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2182 

[Report No. 111–115] 

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide 

for enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted pursuant 

to such Act, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 29, 2009 

Mr. TOWNS (for himself, Mr. ISSA, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. WELCH, 

and Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

MAY 18, 2009 

Additional sponsor: Mr. LYNCH

MAY 18, 2009 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 

and ordered to be printed 

A BILL 

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 

of 2009 to provide for enhanced State and local oversight 

of activities conducted pursuant to such Act, and for 

other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Enhanced Oversight 

3 of State and Local Economic Recovery Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR FUNDING FOR STATE AND 

5 LOCAL OVERSIGHT UNDER AMERICAN RE6 COVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. 

7 (a) FEDERAL AGENCY REQUIREMENT.—Section 

8 1552 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 

9 2009 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 297) is amended— 

10 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) FEDERAL AGENCY RE11 QUIREMENT.—’’ before ‘‘Federal agencies receiving’’; 

12 (2) by striking ‘‘may,’’ and all that follows 

13 through ‘‘reasonably’’ and inserting ‘‘shall, subject 

14 to guidance from the Director of the Office of Man15 agement and Budget,’’; and 

16 (3) by striking ‘‘data collection requirements’’ 

17 and inserting ‘‘data collection requirements, audit18 ing, contract and grant planning and management, 

19 and investigations of waste, fraud, and abuse’’. 

20 (b) STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY.— 

21 Such section is further amended by adding at the end the 

22 following new subsection: 

23 ‘‘(b) STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHOR24 ITY.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, State 

25 and local governments receiving funds under this Act may 

26 set aside an amount up to 0.5 percent of such funds, in 


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1 addition to any funds already allocated to administrative 

2 expenditures, to conduct planning and oversight to prevent 

3 and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.’’. 

4 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The heading for 

5 section 1552 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 1552. FUNDING FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 

7 OVERSIGHT.’’. 

8 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR ACQUISITION BY STATE AND 

9 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THROUGH FEDERAL 

10 SUPPLY SCHEDULES. 

11 Section 502 of title 40, United States Code, is 

12 amended by adding at the end the following: 

13 ‘‘(e) USE OF SUPPLY SCHEDULES FOR ECONOMIC

14 RECOVERY.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may 

16 provide for the use by State or local governments of 

17 Federal supply schedules of the General Services Ad18 ministration for goods or services that are funded by 

19 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 

20 2009 (Public Law 111–5). 

21 ‘‘(2) VOLUNTARY USE.—In the case of the use 

22 by a State or local government of a Federal supply 

23 schedule pursuant to paragraph (1), participation by 

24 a firm that sells to the Federal Government through 

25 the supply schedule shall be voluntary with respect 


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1 to a sale to the State or local government through 

2 such supply schedule. 

3 ‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—The definitions in sub4 section (c)(3) shall apply for purposes of this sub5 section.’’. 

6 SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF JOBS CREATED AND JOBS RE7 TAINED. 

8 Section 1512(g) of the American Recovery and Rein9 vestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 288) 

10 is amended by adding at the end ‘‘The Director of the 

11 Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance to 

12 ensure accurate and consistent reporting of ‘jobs created’ 

13 and ‘jobs retained’ as those terms are used in subsection 

14 (c)(3)(D).’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 58 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2182 

[Report No. 111–115] 

A BILL 

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestant to such Act, and for other purposes. and local oversight of activities conducted pursu- ment Act of 2009 to provide for enhanced State 

MAY 18, 2009 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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