Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-1854
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-06-07
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1854 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 7, 2023 Mr. Risch (for himself and Mr. Rubio ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To amend the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 to require the information on the ForeignAssistance.gov website to be searchable.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Enhancement Act . 2. Modification of matters to be made publicly available Section 4(b)(1) of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016 ( 22 U.S.C. 2394c(b)(1) ) is amended to read as follows: (1) In general The information described in subsection (a)— (A) shall be published on a detailed basis, such as award-by-award; and (B) shall include, and shall be searchable by— (i) country or region, as appropriate; (ii) funding agency; (iii) managing agency; (iv) sector; (v) total award amount; (vi) appropriations account; (vii) fiscal year or fiscal years; and (viii) implementing partners, including prime and subawards. .