3.0.0 2519 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z 2023-01-11T13:15:24Z Senate S S 2007-12-19 110 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-12-19T19:42:15Z Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2008 110 4881 HR 2008-04-15 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Related bill CRS 2007-12-19 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2007-12-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL N M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2008-05-12 False Government Operations and Politics Collection of accounts Commerce Corporations Debt Economics and Public Finance Federal aid programs Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Government contractors Government procurement Income tax Law Partnerships Subsidies Tax liens Taxation Government Operations and Politics 00 2007-12-19 Introduced in Senate 2008-01-04T16:15:11Z Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2007 - Prohibits any person who has a seriously delinquent tax debt from obtaining a federal government contract or grant. Requires federal agency heads to require prospective contractors or grantees to: (1) certify that they do not have such a debt; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose information describing whether such contractors or grantees have such a debt.

Defines "seriously delinquent tax debt" and an outstanding tax debt for which a notice of lien has been filed in public records.

]]> Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2007 Display Title Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit the awarding of a contract or grant in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless the prospective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency awarding the contract or grant that the contractor or grantee has no seriously delinquent tax debts, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2007-12-19T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2519is/xml/BILLS-110s2519is.xml 2007-12-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.