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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2917 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To track taxpayer dollars sent to adversarial countries and foreign entities |
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| 6 | 6 | | of concern, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL14, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | TEFANIKintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To track taxpayer dollars sent to adversarial countries and |
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| 14 | 14 | | foreign entities of concern, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tracking Receipts to 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending Act’’ or 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | the ‘‘TRACKS Act’’. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. FOREIGN SUBAWARDS. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Law 109–282) is amended— 10 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 2917 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | following: 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(9) S |
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| 31 | 31 | | UBAWARD.—The term ‘subaward’— 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(A) means an award, including a grant, 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | contract, cooperative agreement, other trans-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | action agreement, or other financial trans-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | action, provided by a pass-through entity to a 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | part of a Federal award received by the pass- 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | through entity; 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ‘‘(B) includes an award described in sub-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | paragraph (A) that is passed from a sub-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | recipient to another subrecipient; and 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(C) does not include payments to a bene-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ficiary of a Federal program.’’; and 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | following: 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ‘‘(3) R |
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| 47 | 47 | | EPORTING OF FOREIGN SUBAWARDS .— 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(A) D |
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| 49 | 49 | | EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(i) C |
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| 51 | 51 | | OVERED SUBAWARD .—The term 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘covered subaward’— 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ‘‘(I) means a subaward awarded 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | to— 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(aa) an entity located in a 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | foreign country of concern (as 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | •HR 2917 IH |
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| 60 | 60 | | defined in section 9901 of the 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | William M. (Mac) Thornberry 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | National Defense Authorization 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | U.S.C. 4651)); or 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(bb) a foreign entity of 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | concern (as defined in section 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 9901 of the William M. (Mac) 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Thornberry National Defense Au-9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | thorization Act for Fiscal Year 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | 2021 (15 U.S.C. 4651)); and 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(II) includes a subaward de-12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | scribed in subclause (I) of any 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | amount. 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(ii) P |
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| 75 | 75 | | RIME AWARD RECIPIENT .—The 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | term ‘prime award recipient’, with respect 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | to a covered subaward, means the entity 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | that directly receives the Federal award 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | from which the covered subaward origi-19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | nates. 20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ‘‘(B) R |
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| 82 | 82 | | EPORTING.—The recipient of a cov-21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ered subaward shall disclose data with respect 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | to the covered subaward in the same manner as 23 |
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| 85 | 85 | | subawards are disclosed in accordance with 24 |
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| 86 | 86 | | paragraph (2). 25 |
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| 90 | 90 | | ‘‘(C) GUIDANCE.—Not later than 90 days 1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | after the date of enactment of the Tracking Re-2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | ceipts to Adversarial Countries for Knowledge 3 |
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| 93 | 93 | | of Spending Act, the Director shall issue guid-4 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ance that establishes consistency for complying 5 |
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| 95 | 95 | | with this paragraph for agencies, prime award 6 |
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| 96 | 96 | | recipients, and covered subaward recipients, in-7 |
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| 97 | 97 | | cluding establishing standards for disclosed 8 |
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| 98 | 98 | | data.’’. 9 |
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