REACT Act
Bill: H.R.7357 | Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. (R-TX)
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Response from Executive Agencies to Congress on Time Act or the REACT Act
This bill requires federal agencies to provide certain information at the request of additional congressional committees and specifies that agencies must respond to such requests within 45 days.
Under current law, agencies must supply information requested by the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives (or any seven of its members) or the Committee on Government Affairs of the Senate (or any five of its members), provided that the requested information relates to matters within the committees' respective jurisdictions. This bill also requires agencies to supply information requested by authorizing committees or permanent select committees.

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require an executive agency to 
  submit information to any committee of the House of Representatives 
 upon the request of 7 of the members of the committee, and to submit 
information to any committee of the Senate upon the request of 5 of the 
  members of the committee, if the information relates to any matter 
    under the jurisdiction of the committee, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Response from Executive Agencies to 
Congress on Time Act'' or the ``REACT Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION TO COMMITTEES UPON REQUEST 
              OF MINIMUM NUMBER OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

    (a) Submission of Information.--Section 2954 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``agency, on request'' and all that 
follows through ``shall submit'' and inserting the following: ``agency, 
on request of any authorizing committee or permanent select committee 
of the House of Representatives or of any 7 members thereof, or on 
request of any authorizing or permanent select committee of the Senate 
or of any 5 members thereof, shall submit''.
    (b) Deadline for Submission; Enforcement.--Section 2954 of such 
title is amended--
            (1) by striking ``An Executive'' and inserting ``(a) 
        Submission of Information.--An Executive''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Deadline.--An Executive agency shall submit the information 
requested by a committee under subsection (a) not later than 45 days 
after the committee requests the information, or not later than such 
alternative deadline as the committee may specify in its request.
    ``(c) Enforcement.--A committee, or any 7 members thereof (in the 
case of a committee of the House of Representatives) or any 5 members 
thereof (in the case of a committee of the Senate), which is aggrieved 
by a violation of this section by an Executive agency may file an 
action in the appropriate district court of the United States for such 
injunctive and declaratory relief as may be appropriate.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to requests made on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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