Title: Embassy Construction Accountability Act of 2022
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Embassy Construction Accountability Act of 2022
The bill requires the Department of State, in its biannual report on overseas capital construction projects, to explain when cost estimates exceed 15% of initial estimates, to explain when estimated project completion exceeds initial estimates by 180 days, and to list whether the State Department has any stop work orders on project components.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8779 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8779

 To amend the Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 to 
 modify the biannual report on overseas capital construction projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 9, 2022

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Department of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 to 
 modify the biannual report on overseas capital construction projects.

    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 ``Embassy Construction Accountability 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO BIANNUAL REPORT ON OVERSEAS CAPITAL 
              CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 118 of the Department of 
State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-323; 22 U.S.C. 
304) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and the Committees on Appropriations'' 
        and inserting ``, the Committees on Appropriations''; and
            (2) by inserting after ``House of Representatives,'' the 
        following: ``, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on 
        Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives''.
    (b) Contents.--Subsection (b) of such section is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end before the 
        period the following: ``and, when the current cost estimate 
        exceeds the initial cost estimate by 15 percent or more, an 
        explanation of the causal or contributing factors resulting in 
        the increased estimated cost, as well as how the Department 
        plans to mitigate the risk of further potential cost 
        increases''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) If the current date of estimated completion reported 
        under paragraph (9) exceeds the date of estimated completion 
        reported under paragraph (8) by 180 days or more, a description 
        of the causal or contributing factors that resulted in the 
        revised estimated completion date, as well as how the 
        Department plans to mitigate the operational impacts of the 
        delay.
            ``(11) Whether the Department has issued a stop-work order 
        or suspension-of-work order on any component or subset of the 
        project, the expected duration of any such order, and the 
        justification for any such order.''.
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