Judgement Fund Taxpayer Accountability Act

Bill: 114-hr-3699
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Westmoreland, Lynn A. [R-GA-3]
Introduced: 2015-10-07
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Executive agency funding and structure

Government liability
Latest action: action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-10-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Judgment Fund Taxpayer Accountability Act </strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Financial Management Service, by January 1 of each year, to report the following information to Congress with respect to payments by federal agencies for judgments, awards, and compromise settlements against the United States: (1) the total amount paid in reimbursement by the agency for such payments during the preceding fiscal year, (2) the total amount still due from the agency in reimbursement, and (3) the name of the plaintiff or claimant to whom a payment was made from agency funds. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3699 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 7, 2015 Mr. Westmoreland (for himself, Mr. Brooks of Alabama , and Mr. Smith of Missouri ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 31, United States Code, to require an annual report from the Financial Management Service within the Department of the Treasury regarding amounts paid or payable by Federal agencies to the judgement fund, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Judgement Fund Taxpayer Accountability Act . 2. Report from the Financial Management Service Section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (d) Not later than January 1 of each year, the Financial Management Service shall report to Congress the following information with regard to each agency (as defined in section 551 of title 5) on account of payments made from sums appropriated by this section: (1) The total amount paid in reimbursement by that agency during the preceding fiscal year on account of each such payment. (2) The total amount still due from that agency in reimbursement for each such payment, as of the end of the preceding fiscal year. (3) For each of the amounts described in paragraph (1) or (2), the name of the plaintiff or claimant to whom the payment was made from sums so appropriated. .