REACT Act

Bill: 118-hr-504
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2023-01-25
Policy area: Congress
Latest action: action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H521)

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Response from Executive Agencies to Congress on Time Act or the REACT Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires federal agencies to provide certain information at the request of additional congressional committees and specifies that agencies must respond to such requests within 45 days.</p> <p>Under current law, agencies must supply information requested by the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives (or any seven of its members) or the Committee on Government Affairs of the Senate (or any five of its members), provided that the requested information relates to matters within the committees' respective jurisdictions. This bill also requires agencies to supply information requested by authorizing committees or permanent select committees.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 504 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 25, 2023 Mr. Burgess (for himself and Mr. Davis of Illinois ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability A BILL To amend title 5, United States Code, to require an executive agency to submit information to any committee of the House of Representatives upon the request of 7 of the members of the committee, and to submit information to any committee of the Senate upon the request of 5 of the members of the committee, if the information relates to any matter under the jurisdiction of the committee, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Response from Executive Agencies to Congress on Time Act or the REACT Act . 2. Requiring submission of information to committees upon request of minimum number of committee members (a) Submission of information Section 2954 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking agency, on request and all that follows through shall submit and inserting the following: agency, on request of any authorizing committee or permanent select committee of the House of Representatives or of any 7 members thereof, or on request of any authorizing or permanent select committee of the Senate or of any 5 members thereof, shall submit . (b) Deadline for submission; enforcement Section 2954 of such title is amended— (1) by striking An Executive and inserting (a) Submission of information .—An Executive ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (b) Deadline An Executive agency shall submit the information requested by a committee under subsection (a) not later than 45 days after the committee requests the information, or not later than such alternative deadline as the committee may specify in its request. (c) Enforcement A committee, or any 7 members thereof (in the case of a committee of the House of Representatives) or any 5 members thereof (in the case of a committee of the Senate), which is aggrieved by a violation of this section by an Executive agency may file an action in the appropriate district court of the United States for such injunctive and declaratory relief as may be appropriate. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to requests made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.