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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2277
To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response Accountability
Committee through December 31, 2026, and to change the name of
such Committee to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH21, 2025
Mr. S
ESSIONS(for himself, Mr. COMER, and Mr. CONNOLLY) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform
A BILL
To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response
Accountability Committee through December 31, 2026,
and to change the name of such Committee to the Fraud
Prevention and Accountability Committee, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Accountability 4
Committee for Transparency Act’’ or the ‘‘FACT Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND NAME CHANGE OF PANDEMIC RE-1
SPONSE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 15010 of the CARES Act 3
(Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note) 4
is amended— 5
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Pandemic 6
Response Accountability Committee’’ and inserting 7
‘‘Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee’’; 8
and 9
(2) in subsection (k), by striking ‘‘September 10
30, 2025’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2026’’. 11
(b) T
ECHNICAL ANDCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 12
Section 15010 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 13
134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note), as amended by the 14
preceding subsection, is further amended— 15
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘
PANDEMIC RE-16
SPONSE ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTE ’’ and inserting 17
‘‘
FRAUD PREVENTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY COM -18
MITTEE’’; and 19
(2) by striking ‘‘section 6 of the Inspector Gen-20
eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)’’ and inserting 21
‘‘section 406 of title 5, United States Code’’ each 22
place such phrase appears in such section; 23
(3) in subsection (a)— 24
(A) in paragraph (2)(C), by inserting 25
‘‘Government’’ before ‘‘Reform’’; 26
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(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘section 1
11 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 2
U.S.C. App)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 424 of 3
title 5, United States Code’’; and 4
(C) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘Pan-5
demic Response Accountability Committee’’ and 6
inserting ‘‘Fraud Prevention and Accountability 7
Committee’’; and 8
(4) in subsection (e)(3)— 9
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sec-10
tion 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 11
U.S.C. App)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 406 of 12
title 5, United States Code’’; and 13
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘sec-14
tion 4(b)(1) of the Inspector General Act of 15
1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)’’ inserting ‘‘section 16
404(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code’’. 17
(c) R
EFERENCES.—Any reference to the Pandemic 18
Response Accountability Committee in any other Federal 19
law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of au-20
thority, or any document of or pertaining to the Pandemic 21
Response Accountability Committee, shall be deemed to 22
refer to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Com-23
mittee. 24
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