Forfeiture Funds Expenditure Transparency Act

Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2595 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2595

To require State and local law enforcement agencies receiving forfeited 
funds and property to report how such funds and property are used, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2023

 Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require State and local law enforcement agencies receiving forfeited 
funds and property to report how such funds and property are used, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Forfeiture Funds Expenditure 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL REPORTING.

    (a) Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund.--Section 
524(c)(6) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
                    ``(E) Not later than January 1, 2024, and every 6 
                months thereafter, each State and local law enforcement 
                agency with the authority to prosecute a criminal case 
                that receives property or funds under this subsection, 
                section 511(e) of the Controlled Substances Act, or 
                section 981(e) of title 18, shall transmit to Congress 
                a report detailing each receipt of property or funds 
                and the activity to which the property or funds were 
                directed for the previous fiscal year, in the case of 
                the first report, and for the previous 6-month period, 
                in the case of each subsequent report.''.
    (b) Controlled Substances Forfeitures.--Section 511(e) of the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 881) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(5) Each State and local law enforcement agency with the 
        authority to prosecute a criminal case that receives property 
        or funds under this subsection shall include in the report 
        transmitted to Congress under section 524(c)(6)(E) of title 28, 
        United States Code, information detailing each receipt of 
        property or funds and the activity to which the property or 
        funds were directed.''.
    (c) Civil Forfeitures.--Section 981 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Each State and local law enforcement agency with the 
authority to prosecute a criminal case that receives property or funds 
under subsection (e) shall include in the report transmitted to 
Congress under section 524(c)(6)(E) of title 28 information detailing 
each receipt of property or funds and the activity to which the 
property or funds were directed.''.
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