Title: Federal Government Advertising Equity Accountability Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Federal Government Advertising Equity Accountability Act
This bill requires the President to include information in each budget regarding executive agency expenditures for advertising services, including expenditures for the advertising services of socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses and of women and minority-owned businesses.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7215 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7215

   To require a report on expenditures for contracts for advertising 
                   services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2018

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require a report on expenditures for contracts for advertising 
                   services, 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 ``Federal Government Advertising 
Equity Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON EXPENDITURES FOR CONTRACTS FOR ADVERTISING SERVICES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(40) The following information with respect to each 
        executive agency:
                    ``(A) Expenditures of the executive agency for the 
                prior fiscal year and the current fiscal year, 
                respectively, for--
                            ``(i) all contracts for advertising 
                        services; and
                            ``(ii) contracts for the advertising 
                        services of--
                                    ``(I) socially and economically 
                                disadvantaged small business concerns 
                                (as defined in section 8(a)(4) of the 
                                Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
                                637(a)(4)); and
                                    ``(II) women- and minority-owned 
                                businesses.
                    ``(B) Estimated expenditures of the executive 
                agency for the fiscal year for which the budget is 
                submitted for--
                            ``(i) all contracts for advertising 
                        services; and
                            ``(ii) contracts for the advertising 
                        services of--
                                    ``(I) socially and economically 
                                disadvantaged small business concerns 
                                (as defined in section 8(a)(4) of the 
                                Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
                                637(a)(4)); and
                                    ``(II) women- and minority-owned 
                                businesses.''.
    (b) Application Date.--The amendment made by this Act shall apply 
to the report submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, for fiscal year 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter.
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