Title: Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act
This bill amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require the Office of Management and Budget's searchable website on federal awards to allow the public to search for and download the results of audits performed on non-federal entities that expend such awards.
The Department of the Treasury shall coordinate the transfer of the results of any such audit.
The Government Accountability Office must submit either a certification that this bill's requirements have been fully implemented or, if it has not been fully implemented, the status of such implementation.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3481 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3481

 To require the inclusion of audit information on the website required 
by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

   Mr. Johnson of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the inclusion of audit information on the website required 
by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, 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 ``Increasing Transparency in Federal 
Audits Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF AUDIT INFORMATION ON USASPENDING.GOV.

    (a) Amendments.--Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability 
and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(7)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(E) search for and download the results of any 
                audit performed pursuant to chapter 75 of title 31, 
                United States Code.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting at the end the 
        following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Inclusion of audit information on website.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The website described in 
                paragraph (1) shall include the results of any audit 
                performed pursuant to chapter 75 of title 31, United 
                States Code.
                    ``(B) Coordination.--The Secretary shall coordinate 
                the transfer of the following:
                            ``(i) The results of any audit performed 
                        pursuant to chapter 75 of title 31, United 
                        States Code.
                            ``(ii) Any other information the Secretary 
                        determines to be necessary to meet the 
                        requirements of this paragraph.''.
    (b) Report Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General, in consultation 
with the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury, shall 
submit to Congress either--
            (1) a certification that this Act, and the amendments made 
        by this Act, have been fully implemented; or
            (2) if this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, have 
        not been fully implemented, the status of such implementation, 
        including any recommendations, as necessary.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to any audit conducted under chapter 75 of title 31, 
United States Code, at any time.
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