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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 fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the closure of expired grants accounts, 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 ‘‘Stop Paying Some-
thing for Nothing Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPIRED GRANT ACCOUNT REPORT. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Beginning 6 months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, not later than 
March 31 of each year, the Director of the Office of Man-
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agement and Budget shall submit to the Chairs and Rank-
ing Members of the Budget Committees a report that 
lists— 
(1) each grant account that is more than 3 
months past the grant end date; and 
(2) the total unexpended balance, the amount of 
obligated but unexpended funds, and the amount of 
unobligated funds in each such account for each 
agency. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISHED ON OMB 
WEBSITE.—Not later than 15 days after the report is sub-
mitted under subsection (a), the report shall be made pub-
lic on the website of the Office of Management and Budg-
et, in a searchable, human-readable, and machine readable 
format. 
(c) RETURN OF FUNDS.—On the date that the report 
is submitted under this section, any unobligated amounts 
in an expired grant account not listed in the report are 
rescinded and shall be returned to the general fund of the 
Treasury. 
SEC. 3. ACCOUNT CLOSING PROCEDURES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) CLOSURE.—Not later than 4 months after 
the date on which a grant account is published 
under section 2(b), the head of the relevant agency 
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shall close such grant account in the Payment Man-
agement System if the final report required by OMB 
Circular No. A–110 was filed more than 36 months 
before such date. 
(2) RETURN OF FUNDS.—On the date that such 
grant account is closed, the unobligated amounts in 
such grant account (if any) are rescinded and shall 
be returned to the general fund of the Treasury. 
(b) PAYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.—The head of 
the relevant agency shall close any grant account in the 
Payment Management System that has no unexpended 
balance remaining for the previous six months and, not 
later than June 15 of each year, submit to the Chairs and 
Ranking Members of the Budget Committees a report that 
lists each account closed pursuant to this subsection. 
(c) AUTOMATED STANDARD APPLICATION FOR PAY-
MENTS SYSTEM.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
close any account in the Automated Standard Application 
for Payments system that has had no unexpended balance 
remaining for the previous six months. On June 15 of each 
year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the 
Budget Committees a report that lists each account closed 
pursuant to this subsection and the agency that controlled 
the account. 
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(d) EXCEPTION TO CLOSURE.—The Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget may prevent the clo-
sure of an account under this Act only after submitting 
to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Budget Commit-
tees a report that describes the reason for not closing such 
account. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(2) BUDGET COMMITTEES.—The term ‘‘Budget 
Committees’’ means the Committee on the Budget of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate Budget 
Committee. 
(3) GRANT
ACCOUNT.—The term ‘‘grant ac-
count’’ includes any account in— 
(A) the Payment Management System or 
the Automated Standard Application for Pay-
ments system; or 
(B) any other system that may be created 
or administered by the Financial Management 
System of the Department of the Treasury. 
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