section 4 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 
U.S.C. 1603) shall— 
(1) complete ethics training described in sub-
section (b)— 
(A) not later than 6 months after the indi-
vidual is first employed or retained for services 
that include one or more lobbying contacts; and 
(B) at least once in each 5-year period 
during which the individual is registered or re-
quired to register under section 4; and 
(2) submit to the Clerk of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Secretary of the Senate certifi-
cation of the training completed under paragraph 
(1). 
(b) QUALIFIED TRAINING.—The Ethics Committee 
of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee 
on Ethics of the Senate shall jointly— 
(1) determine the curriculum and certification 
requirements for the ethics training for individuals 
described in subsection (a); 
(2) approve those educational institutions, pro-
fessional associations, or other persons who are 
qualified to provide such ethics training; 
(3) determine the maximum fee that may be 
charged for the ethics training; and 
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(4) provide oversight of the ethics training pro-
gram established under this section in order to de-
termine the quality of instruction in, and the admin-
istration of, the training program. 
(c) 
RESPONSIBILITIES
OF
CLERK
AND
SEC-
RETARY.—The Clerk of the House of Representatives and 
the Secretary of the Senate shall— 
(1) collect and review for completion and accu-
racy the certifications of ethics training submitted 
under subsection (a)(2); and 
(2) post on the websites of the Clerk and the 
Secretary, with respect to each individual required to 
complete ethics training under this section— 
(A) whether the individual has complied 
with such requirement; and 
(B) the certifications submitted by the in-
dividual under subsection (a)(2). 
SEC. 408. ESTIMATES BASED ON TAX REPORTING SYSTEM. 
Section 15 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 
(2 U.S.C. 1610) is repealed. 
SEC. 409. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) SECTION 402.—Section 402 and the amendments 
made by that section take effect upon the expiration of 
the 90-day period beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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(b) SECTIONS 403, 404, AND 405.—The amendments 
made by sections 403, 404, and 405 shall take effect on 
the first day of the first quarterly period described in sec-
tion 5(a) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 
U.S.C. 1604(a)) that begins after the end of the 90-day 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) SECTION 406.—The amendments made by section 
406 shall apply to any registration or report that is filed 
under section 4 or 5 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
1995— 
(1) on or after the 90th day after the date of 
the enactment of this Act; or 
(2) before such 90th day, if such registration or 
report is, as of such 90th day, being retained under 
section 6(a)(5) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
1995 (2 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5)). 
(d) SECTION 407.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 407 shall take effect 
upon the expiration of the 1-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) CURRENT LOBBYISTS.—In the case of indi-
viduals who are registered under section 4 of the 
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1603) as 
of the effective date under paragraph (1), the ethics 
training required under section 407(a)(1) shall be 
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completed not later than the end of the 6-month pe-
riod beginning on the effective date under paragraph 
(1) of this subsection, in lieu of the date specified 
in section 407(a)(1). 
TITLE V—TRANSPARENCY IN 
FEDERAL CONTRACTING 
SEC. 501. IMPROVING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTER-
FACE AND WEBSITE DATA ELEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2 of the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 
109–282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking 
‘‘and delivery orders’’ and inserting ‘‘lease 
agreements and assignments, and delivery or-
ders’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) programmatically search and access 
all data in a serialized machine readable format 
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(such as XML) via a web-services application 
programming interface.’’; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) CONGRESSIONALLY
DIRECTED
SPENDING 
ITEM.—The term ‘congressionally directed spending 
item’ means a provision or report language included 
primarily at the request of a Member of Congress 
providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific 
amount of discretionary budget authority, credit au-
thority, or other spending authority for a contract, 
loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other 
expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a 
specific State, locality, or congressional district, 
other than through a statutory or administrative for-
mula-driven or competitive award process.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (F), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting semicolon; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (G) as 
subparagraph (J); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (F) 
the following new subparagraphs: 
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‘‘(G) to the extent possible, the Federal 
agency, including the bureau, office, or subdivi-
sion, that authorized the Federal award; 
‘‘(H) after January 1, 2015, for all con-
tracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, task or-
ders, lease agreements and assignments, and 
delivery orders— 
‘‘(i) information about the extent of 
competition in making the award, includ-
ing the number of bids or proposals deter-
mined to be responsive during the competi-
tive process, and if the award was not com-
peted, the legal authority and specific ra-
tionale for making the award without full 
and open competition; 
‘‘(ii) the full amount of money that is 
awarded under a contract or, in the case of 
lease agreements or assignments, the 
amount paid to the Government, and the 
full amount of any options to expand or 
extend under a contract; 
‘‘(iii) the amount of the profit incen-
tive, such as award fees; 
‘‘(iv) the type of contract, such as 
fixed price, cost plus pricing, labor hour 
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contracts, and time and materials con-
tracts; 
‘‘(v) a permanent link to the original 
solicitation or notice and the solicitation 
ID; 
‘‘(vi) an indication if the contract is 
the result of legislative mandates, set- 
asides, preference program requirements, 
or other criteria, and whether the contract 
is multi-year, consolidated, or performance 
based; and 
‘‘(vii) an indication if the contract is 
a congressionally directed spending item; 
‘‘(I) after January 1, 2015, for all grants, 
subgrants, loans, awards, cooperative agree-
ments, and other forms of financial assistance, 
an indication if the funding is a congressionally 
directed spending item; and’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided, the amendments made by subsection (a) shall be 
implemented not later than 6 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 502. IMPROVING DATA QUALITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Funding Account-
ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 
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282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as amended by section 501, 
is further amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 5. IMPROVING DATA QUALITY. 
‘‘(a) INSPECTOR GENERAL DATA AUDIT.—Each In-
spector General shall annually audit for the previous fiscal 
year the data used on the website created by this Act for 
the relevant Federal agency of the Inspector General, in 
compliance with generally accepted Government auditing 
standards, and submit a report on such audit to the Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget that includes 
at least the following: 
‘‘(1) A review of data used for the website to 
verify accuracy of the data and assess the process 
used for improving data quality. 
‘‘(2) A review of a statistically representative 
sample of Federal awards to determine whether Fed-
eral agencies have appropriate measures in place to 
review data submissions under this Act for accuracy 
and completeness. 
‘‘(3) An identification and report on new stand-
ards that Inspector General recommends for imple-
mentation by agencies to improve data quality. 
‘‘(b) OMB REPORT.—Not later than April 1 of each 
year, the Director of the Office of Management and Budg-
et shall make each report submitted under subsection (a) 
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for the previous fiscal year available to the public, includ-
ing a review of the findings of the audit and recommenda-
tions to improve data quality, through the website created 
by this Act.’’. 
SEC. 503. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO REPORTING OF 
AWARD DATA. 
(a) REVISION OF GUIDANCE.—The Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall revise the Office’s 
guidance to Federal agencies on reporting Federal awards 
to clarify— 
(1) the requirement that award titles describe 
the award’s purpose; and 
(2) requirements for validating and docu-
menting agency award data submitted by Federal 
agencies. 
(b) INCLUSION OF CITY INFORMATION.—The Direc-
tor of the Office of Management and Budget shall include 
information on the city where work is performed in the 
Office’s public reporting of the completeness of agency 
data submissions. 
SEC. 504. RECIPIENT PERFORMANCE TRANSPARENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Funding Account-
ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 
282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as amended by sections 501 
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and 502, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 6. RECIPIENT PERFORMANCE TRANSPARENCY AND 
PAST PERFORMANCE. 
‘‘The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall ensure that the unique identifier required in 
section 2(b)(1)(E) that is used to link information about 
the entity receiving the award on the searchable website 
is also used to link information about that entity on the 
Federal Awardee Performance Integrity Information Sys-
tem.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall be implemented not later than June 
30, 2014. 
SEC. 505. IMPROVEMENT OF FEDERAL AWARDEE PER-
FORMANCE AND INTEGRITY INFORMATION 
SYSTEM DATABASE. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE IN DATABASE 10 
YEARS OF INFORMATION ON CERTAIN PERSONS AWARD-
ED FEDERAL CONTRACTS OR GRANTS.—Section 872 of 
the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 
4555) is amended in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘5-year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘10-year’’. 
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(b) REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE INFORMATION IN 
DATABASE REGARDING CERTAIN JUDGMENTS AND SET-
TLEMENTS.—Section 872 of such Act is further amended 
in subsection (c)(1) by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraphs: 
‘‘(E) In an administrative proceeding, any 
administrative judgment that does not contain 
an explicit finding or acknowledgment of fault. 
‘‘(F) In a civil proceeding, any settlement 
that does not contain an explicit finding or ac-
knowledgment of fault.’’. 
SEC. 506. FEDERAL CONTRACTOR COMPLIANCE. 
(a) SELF-REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Subsection 
(f) of section 2313 of title 41, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) SELF-REPORTING REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) CONTRACTS IN EXCESS OF SIMPLIFIED AC-
QUISITION THRESHOLD.—No funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available by any Act may be used for 
any Federal contract for the procurement of prop-
erty or services in excess of the simplified acquisition 
threshold unless the contractor has first made the 
certifications set forth in section 52.209–5 of the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation. 
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