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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2182 
To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide 
for enhanced State and local oversight of activities conducted pursuant 
to such Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 29, 2009 
Mr. TOWNS (for himself, Mr. ISSA, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. WELCH, 
and Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
of 2009 to provide for enhanced State and local oversight 
of activities conducted pursuant to such Act, 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 ‘‘Enhanced Oversight 
of State and Local Economic Recovery Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR FUNDING FOR STATE AND 
LOCAL OVERSIGHT UNDER AMERICAN RE-
COVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. 
(a) FEDERAL
AGENCY
REQUIREMENT.—Section 
1552 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 
2009 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 297) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) FEDERAL AGENCY RE-
QUIREMENT.—’’ before ‘‘Federal agencies receiving’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘may,’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘reasonably’’ and inserting ‘‘shall, subject 
to guidance from the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget,’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘data collection requirements’’ 
and inserting ‘‘data collection requirements, audit-
ing, contract and grant planning and management, 
and investigations of waste, fraud, and abuse’’. 
(b) STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY.— 
Such section is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(b) STATE
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHOR-
ITY.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, State 
and local governments receiving funds under this Act may 
set aside an amount up to 0.5 percent of such funds, in 
addition to any funds already allocated to administrative 
expenditures, to conduct planning and oversight to prevent 
and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.’’. 
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(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The heading for 
section 1552 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 1552. FUNDING FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 
OVERSIGHT.’’. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR ACQUISITION BY STATE AND 
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THROUGH FEDERAL 
SUPPLY SCHEDULES. 
Section 502 of title 40, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) USE OF SUPPLY SCHEDULES FOR ECONOMIC 
RECOVERY.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator may 
provide for the use by State or local governments of 
Federal supply schedules of the General Services Ad-
ministration for goods or services that are funded by 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 
2009 (Public Law 111–5). 
‘‘(2) VOLUNTARY USE.—In the case of the use 
by a State or local government of a Federal supply 
schedule pursuant to paragraph (1), participation by 
a firm that sells to the Federal Government through 
the supply schedule shall be voluntary with respect 
to a sale to the State or local government through 
such supply schedule. 
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‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—The definitions in sub-
section (c)(3) shall apply for purposes of this sub-
section.’’. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF JOBS CREATED AND JOBS RE-
TAINED. 
Section 1512(g) of the American Recovery and Rein-
vestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5; 123 Stat. 288) 
is amended by adding at the end ‘‘The Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance to 
ensure accurate and consistent reporting of ‘jobs created’ 
and ‘jobs retained’ as those terms are used in subsection 
(c)(3)(D).’’. 
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