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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 872
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to
USAspending.gov, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH5, 2025
Ms. E
RNST(for herself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. LANKFORD, and Mr. MORENO) in-
troduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-
parency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction
agreements are reported to USAspending.gov, 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 ‘‘Stop Secret Spending 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. OTHER TRANSACTION AGREEMENT REPORTING. 1
(a) O
THERTRANSACTIONAGREEMENTS.—Section 2
2(a) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-3
parency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— 4
(1) in paragraph (4)(A)— 5
(A) in clause (ii), by adding ‘‘and’’ and the 6
end; and 7
(B) by adding at the end the following: 8
‘‘(iii) includes other transaction agree-9
ments;’’; and 10
(2) in paragraph (7)— 11
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 12
‘‘(2)(A)(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘(4)(A)(i)’’; and 13
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking 14
‘‘(2)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘(4)(A)(ii)’’. 15
(b) D
ATASTANDARDS.—Section 4 of the Federal 16
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 17
(31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended by adding at the end 18
the following: 19
‘‘(e) O
THERTRANSACTIONAGREEMENTDATA.—Not 20
later than 3 years after the date of enactment of the Stop 21
Secret Spending Act of 2025, the Secretary shall ensure 22
that, with respect to the website established under section 23
2, or any successor website— 24
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‘‘(1) data relating to other transaction agree-1
ments is automatically transmitted to the website, 2
and 3
‘‘(2) a centralized view of the data described in 4
paragraph (1) is available on the website.’’. 5
(c) A
NNUALREPORT ONUNREPORTEDFUNDING.— 6
Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and 7
Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is 8
amended by adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(h) A
NNUALREPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 10
the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act 11
of 2025, and annually thereafter, the Secretary, in con-12
sultation with the Director, shall post to the website estab-13
lished under this section a report that includes— 14
‘‘(1) the total amount of Federal spending on 15
Federal awards for which data has not been posted 16
to the website; and 17
‘‘(2) the reason data on the Federal spending 18
described in paragraph (1) has not been posted to 19
the website, including whether the Federal spending 20
was— 21
‘‘(A) national security-related or classified; 22
‘‘(B) a grant or contract awarded or en-23
tered into by a legislative or judicial branch 24
agency; or 25
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‘‘(C) a subaward below a primary 1
subaward.’’. 2
(d) I
MPLEMENTATION PLAN.— 3
(1) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 4
(A) D
IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ 5
means the Director of the Office of Manage-6
ment and Budget. 7
(B) R
ELEVANT AGENCY .—The term ‘‘rel-8
evant agency’’ means a Federal agency (as de-9
fined in section 2(a) of the Federal Funding 10
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 11
(31 U.S.C. 6101 note)) that has the authority 12
to enter into an other transaction agreement, as 13
determined by the Director. 14
(C) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 15
means the Secretary of the Treasury. 16
(D) U
SASPENDING.GOV.—The term 17
‘‘USAspending.gov’’ means the website estab-18
lished under section 2 of the Federal Funding 19
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 20
(31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 21
(2) I
NITIAL COMPILATION.—If the Secretary 22
has not yet complied with subsection (e) of section 23
4 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Trans-24
parency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as 25
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added by this section, by the date that is 1 year 1
after the date of enactment of this Act, not later 2
than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, 3
the Secretary, in coordination with the Director and 4
the heads of relevant agencies, shall publish on 5
USAspending.gov a report that lists and includes a 6
detailed description of all other transaction agree-7
ments entered into by the relevant agencies for the 8
fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which the 9
report is published. 10
(3) P
LAN.—If the Secretary has not yet com-11
plied with subsection (e) of section 4 of the Federal 12
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 13
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as added by this sec-14
tion, by the date that is 2 years after the date of 15
enactment of this Act, not later than 2 years after 16
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in 17
consultation with the Director and the heads of rel-18
evant agencies, shall submit to Congress a plan that 19
includes— 20
(A) the status of including data relating to 21
other transaction agreements on 22
USAspending.gov; and 23
(B) actions underway and planned to en-24
sure that the data described in subparagraph 25
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(A) is fully incorporated into USAspending.gov 1
by the date that is 3 years after the date of en-2
actment of this Act. 3
SEC. 3. OTHER AMENDMENTS. 4
(a) I
NSPECTORGENERALREPORTS.—Section 6(a) of 5
the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 6
Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— 7
(1) in paragraph (1)— 8
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 9
(A), by striking ‘‘each Federal agency’’ and in-10
serting ‘‘each agency described in paragraphs 11
(1) and (2) of section 901(b) of title 31, United 12
States Code’’; 13
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking 14
‘‘Federal agency’’ and inserting ‘‘agency’’; and 15
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking 16
‘‘Federal agency’’ and inserting ‘‘agency’’; and 17
(2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 18
following: 19
‘‘(2) D
EADLINES.—The inspector general of 20
each agency described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of 21
section 901(b) of title 31, United States Code, shall 22
submit to Congress and make publicly available a re-23
port described in paragraph (1)(B)— 24
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‘‘(A) not later than 1 year after the date 1
of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act 2
of 2025; and 3
‘‘(B) not less than frequently than once 4
every 2 years after the date described in sub-5
paragraph (A) until the date that is 10 years 6
after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret 7
Spending Act of 2025 on the date of submission 8
of the report required under section 3521(f) or 9
9105(a)(3) of title 31, United States Code, for 10
the applicable fiscal year.’’. 11
(b) F
ULLDISCLOSURE OFFEDERALFUNDS.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 3 of the Federal 13
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 14
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— 15
(A) in subsection (b)— 16
(i) paragraph (1), in the matter pre-17
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘a 18
Federal agency or component of a Federal 19
agency’’ and inserting ‘‘a Federal agency 20
or a component of a Federal agency in-21
cluded on the list posted under subsection 22
(e)(2)’’; and 23
(ii) in paragraph (2)(B), in the matter 24
preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘to be 25
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posted’’ and inserting ‘‘to be posted by a 1
Federal agency or a component of a Fed-2
eral agency included on the list posted 3
under subsection (e)(2)’’; and 4
(B) by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘(c) Q
UALITY OFINFORMATION.— 6
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary and the Di-7
rector, in consultation with the heads of Federal 8
agencies, shall establish requirements to ensure that 9
the information to be posted under subsection (b) 10
that is posted by a Federal agency or component of 11
a Federal agency is complete and accurate. 12
‘‘(2) F
EDERAL AGENCY RESPONSIBILITY .—The 13
head of each Federal agency or component of a Fed-14
eral agency posting data under subsection (b) shall 15
ensure that the data is complete and accurate. 16
‘‘(3) A
UTHORITY TO VERIFY ACCURACY .—The 17
Secretary and the Director may verify that the data 18
posted under subsection (b) by a Federal agency or 19
component of a Federal agency are complete, accu-20
rate, and consistent. 21
‘‘(d) D
ISPLAYSTANDARDS.—The Secretary, in con-22
sultation with the Director, shall ensure that the heads 23
of Federal agencies that post information under sub-24
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section (b) comply with display standards established by 1
the Secretary. 2
‘‘(e) A
GENCYREPORTINGDETERMINATION.—Not 3
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Stop 4
Secret Spending Act of 2025, and not less frequently than 5
once every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary, in coordina-6
tion with the Director, shall— 7
‘‘(1) assess and make a determination with re-8
spect to which Federal agencies and components of 9
Federal agencies are required to post information 10
under subsection (b); 11
‘‘(2) publish a list of the Federal agencies and 12
components of Federal agencies determined under 13
paragraph (1) on the website established under sec-14
tion 2(b)(1); and 15
‘‘(3) provide to the head and inspector general 16
of each Federal agency or component of a Federal 17
agency included on the list published under para-18
graph (2) written notice of the inclusion of the Fed-19
eral agency or component of a Federal agency on the 20
list.’’. 21
(2) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 22
by paragraph (1)(A) shall take effect on the date on 23
which the Secretary publishes the first list under 24
section 3(e)(2) of the Federal Funding Account-25
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ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 1
6101 note), as added by paragraph (1). 2
SEC. 4. GAO REPORT. 3
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 4
of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 5
shall make recommendations for any updates the Comp-6
troller General of the United States determines advisable 7
to clause 52.204.10 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation 8
with respect to incorporating requirements under the Fed-9
eral Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 10
2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 11
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