I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7598 
To require the Inspector General to submit a report on the Federal subaward 
reporting system, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2024 
Mr. LANGWORTHY (for himself, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. GUEST, Mr. 
HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. LATTA, Mr. DAVIS of North 
Carolina, and Mr. QUIGLEY) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To require the Inspector General to submit a report on 
the Federal subaward reporting system, 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 ‘‘Federal Subaward Re-
porting System Modernization and Expansion Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FFATA FEDERAL SUBAWARD REPORTING SYSTEM. 
(a) REPORT ON FEDERAL SUBAWARD REPORTING 
SYSTEM.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the Gen-
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through the system including the final recipient 
of a subaward under a Federal award. 
(B) Standardized reporting requirements 
across Federal agencies. 
(C) Provisions to reduce the burden on 
Federal award recipients to comply with report-
ing requirements under the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. 
(D) Mechanisms to increase accessibility 
and availability of subaward data including the 
final recipient of a subaward under a Federal 
award to the public and stakeholders. 
(E) Adequate enforcement mechanisms to 
ensure compliance with reporting requirements 
under the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006. 
(3) SUBAWARD
REPORTING
EXPANSION
BY 
FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of 
each Federal agency shall begin implementing the 
plan described in paragraph (2). 
(4) 
REPORT
ON
SUBAWARD
EXPANSION 
PLAN.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until 
the plan is fully implemented (as determined by the 
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Administrator), the Administrator, in consultation 
with the Director shall submit to Congress a report 
on the plan described in paragraph (2). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of General Serv-
ices. 
(2) DIRECTOR; FEDERAL
AGENCY; FEDERAL 
AWARD; SECRETARY.—The terms ‘‘Director’’, ‘‘Fed-
eral agency’’, ‘‘Federal award’’, and ‘‘Secretary’’ 
have the meaning given those terms in section 2(a) 
of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-
parency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 
(3) FFATA SUBAWARD
REPORTING
SYSTEM; 
SYSTEM.—The terms ‘‘FFATA subaward reporting 
system’’ and ‘‘system’’ mean the subaward reporting 
system described in section 2(d)(2) of the Federal 
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 
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