I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4089 
To require Government credit card bills to be made available to the public, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 19, 2005 
Mr. POE (for himself, Mr. SIMMONS, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. GOODE, Mr. 
TERRY, Mr. PETRI, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. 
WAMP, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. GUTKNECHT, Mr. RYAN of Wis-
consin, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SODREL, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. PITTS, 
Mr. AKIN, Mr. FORTUN˜O, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. PENCE, Mr. HENSARLING, 
and Mr. WELDON of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Government Reform 
A BILL 
To require Government credit card bills to be made available 
to the public, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Credit 
Card Sunshine Act’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO MAKE GOVERNMENT CREDIT 
CARD BILLS AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—With respect to each Govern-
ment credit card, the Federal department or agency em-
ploying the Federal employee using the card shall make 
publicly available the information described in subsection 
(b) within 15 business days after receipt (by the Govern-
ment or the employee, as the case may be) of any bill for 
purchases made with the card. 
(b) INFORMATION TO BE MADE AVAILABLE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The information to be made 
available under subsection (a) is the following, with 
respect to each Government credit card bill: 
(A) A list of each purchase made. 
(B) The amount of each purchase made. 
(2) REMOVAL OF CERTAIN INFORMATION.—In 
making the information described in paragraph (1) 
available, the Federal department or agency shall re-
move the account number of the credit card and any 
information that personally identifies the employee 
involved. 
(c) METHOD OF AVAILABILITY.—The information to 
be made available under subsection (a) shall be posted on 
the official website of the Inspector General of the Federal 
department or agency concerned.
(d) EXCEPTION.—The Secretary of a department or 
head of an agency may omit information otherwise re-
quired to be made available under subsection (a) if the 
Secretary or head determines that it is necessary in the 
interests of national security. 
(e) DISCIPLINARY ACTION.—In the case of a fraudu-
lent use of a Government credit card that involves a pur-
chase in an amount greater than $500, the employee mak-
ing the purchase is subject to termination of employment 
with the Federal Government, a requirement to reimburse 
the Government for the item purchased, return of the item 
purchased (if appropriate). and such other disciplinary ac-
tions as the Secretary of the Department concerned or 
head of the agency concerned considers appropriate. 
(f) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Govern-
ment credit card’’ means either of the following: 
(1) A Governmentwide commercial purchase 
card. 
(2) A travel charge card established pursuant to 
the United States Travel and Transportation Pay-
ment and Expense Control System, or any Federal 
contractor-issued travel charge card, for payments of 
expenses of official Government travel. 
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