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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2277 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response Accountability |
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| 6 | 6 | | Committee through December 31, 2026, and to change the name of |
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| 7 | 7 | | such Committee to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee, |
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| 8 | 8 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH21, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. S |
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| 12 | 12 | | ESSIONS(for himself, Mr. COMER, and Mr. CONNOLLY) introduced the |
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| 13 | 13 | | following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and |
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| 14 | 14 | | Government Reform |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response |
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| 17 | 17 | | Accountability Committee through December 31, 2026, |
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| 18 | 18 | | and to change the name of such Committee to the Fraud |
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| 19 | 19 | | Prevention and Accountability Committee, and for other |
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| 20 | 20 | | purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Accountability 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Committee for Transparency Act’’ or the ‘‘FACT Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND NAME CHANGE OF PANDEMIC RE-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SPONSE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE. 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—Section 15010 of the CARES Act 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note) 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | is amended— 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Pandemic 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Response Accountability Committee’’ and inserting 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee’’; 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | and 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘September 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 30, 2025’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2026’’. 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (b) T |
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| 42 | 42 | | ECHNICAL ANDCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Section 15010 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | 134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note), as amended by the 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | preceding subsection, is further amended— 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘ |
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| 47 | 47 | | PANDEMIC RE-16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SPONSE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTE ’’ and inserting 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘ |
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| 50 | 50 | | FRAUD PREVENTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY COM -18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | MITTEE’’; and 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) by striking ‘‘section 6 of the Inspector Gen-20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)’’ and inserting 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ‘‘section 406 of title 5, United States Code’’ each 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | place such phrase appears in such section; 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (3) in subsection (a)— 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (A) in paragraph (2)(C), by inserting 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘Government’’ before ‘‘Reform’’; 26 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘section 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | 11 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | U.S.C. App)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 424 of 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | title 5, United States Code’’; and 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (C) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘Pan-5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | demic Response Accountability Committee’’ and 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | inserting ‘‘Fraud Prevention and Accountability 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Committee’’; and 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (4) in subsection (e)(3)— 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sec-10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | tion 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | U.S.C. App)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 406 of 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | title 5, United States Code’’; and 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘sec-14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | tion 4(b)(1) of the Inspector General Act of 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)’’ inserting ‘‘section 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | 404(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code’’. 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (c) R |
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| 80 | 80 | | EFERENCES.—Any reference to the Pandemic 18 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Response Accountability Committee in any other Federal 19 |
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| 82 | 82 | | law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of au-20 |
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| 83 | 83 | | thority, or any document of or pertaining to the Pandemic 21 |
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| 84 | 84 | | Response Accountability Committee, shall be deemed to 22 |
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| 85 | 85 | | refer to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Com-23 |
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| 86 | 86 | | mittee. 24 |
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