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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2781 

To require the closure of expired grants accounts, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 22, 2013 

Mr. PETERS of California (for himself and Ms. KUSTER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for 

a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 

consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To require the closure of expired grants accounts, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Paying Some5 thing for Nothing Act of 2013’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXPIRED GRANT ACCOUNT REPORT. 

7 (a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Beginning 6 months after 

8 the date of the enactment of this Act, not later than 

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1 agement and Budget shall submit to the Chairs and Rank2 ing Members of the Budget Committees a report that 

3 lists— 

4 (1) each grant account that is more than 3 

5 months past the grant end date; and 

6 (2) the total unexpended balance, the amount of 

7 obligated but unexpended funds, and the amount of 

8 unobligated funds in each such account for each 

9 agency. 

10 (b) REPORT REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISHED ON OMB 

11 WEBSITE.—Not later than 15 days after the report is sub12 mitted under subsection (a), the report shall be made pub13 lic on the website of the Office of Management and Budg14 et, in a searchable, human-readable, and machine readable 

15 format. 

16 (c) RETURN OF FUNDS.—On the date that the report 

17 is submitted under this section, any unobligated amounts 

18 in an expired grant account not listed in the report are 

19 rescinded and shall be returned to the general fund of the 

20 Treasury. 

21 SEC. 3. ACCOUNT CLOSING PROCEDURES. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.— 

23 (1) CLOSURE.—Not later than 4 months after 

24 the date on which a grant account is published 

25 under section 2(b), the head of the relevant agency 


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1 shall close such grant account in the Payment Man2 agement System if the final report required by OMB 

3 Circular No. A–110 was filed more than 36 months 

4 before such date. 

5 (2) RETURN OF FUNDS.—On the date that such 

6 grant account is closed, the unobligated amounts in 

7 such grant account (if any) are rescinded and shall 

8 be returned to the general fund of the Treasury. 

9 (b) PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.—The head of 

10 the relevant agency shall close any grant account in the 

11 Payment Management System that has no unexpended 

12 balance remaining for the previous six months and, not 

13 later than June 15 of each year, submit to the Chairs and 

14 Ranking Members of the Budget Committees a report that 

15 lists each account closed pursuant to this subsection. 

16 (c) AUTOMATED STANDARD APPLICATION FOR PAY17 MENTS SYSTEM.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall 

18 close any account in the Automated Standard Application 

19 for Payments system that has had no unexpended balance 

20 remaining for the previous six months. On June 15 of each 

21 year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the 

22 Budget Committees a report that lists each account closed 

23 pursuant to this subsection and the agency that controlled 

24 the account. 


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1 (d) EXCEPTION TO CLOSURE.—The Director of the 

2 Office of Management and Budget may prevent the clo3 sure of an account under this Act only after submitting 

4 to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Budget Commit5 tees a report that describes the reason for not closing such 

6 account. 

7 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 

8 In this Act: 

9 (1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 

10 meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 

11 United States Code. 

12 (2) BUDGET COMMITTEES.—The term ‘‘Budget 

13 Committees’’ means the Committee on the Budget of 

14 the House of Representatives and the Senate Budget 

15 Committee. 

16 (3) GRANT ACCOUNT.—The term ‘‘grant ac17 count’’ includes any account in— 

18 (A) the Payment Management System or 

19 the Automated Standard Application for Pay20 ments system; or 

21 (B) any other system that may be created 

22 or administered by the Financial Management 

23 System of the Department of the Treasury. 

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