3.0.0 761 2022-11-01T17:32:21Z 2022-11-01T17:32:21Z Senate S 2019-03-12 116 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-03-12T20:44:40Z 2019-03-12 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2019-03-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. N C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. 2019-03-12 True Economics and Public Finance Budget deficits and national debt Charitable contributions Congressional oversight Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Homeland Security Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of Veterans Affairs Department of the Interior Department of the Treasury Executive agency funding and structure Government studies and investigations Economics and Public Finance 00 2019-03-12 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-23T21:00:52Z Donations for Our Nation's Advancement, Transformation, and Enhancement Act or the DONATE Act

This bill allows executive departments to accept conditional gifts on behalf of such departments.

Specifically, departments may accept cash donations made by U.S. citizens that come with instructions on how the money should be spent. Current law allows departments to accept donations but not where there are conditions on the money's use.

A department may not accept a conditional gift that is conditioned upon carrying out any act or purpose that will require an expenditure of funds that exceeds the gift amount, unless the expenditure has been approved by Congress. If a department accepts a conditional gift that is insufficient to meet the cost of carrying out a conditional act or purpose of the gift, the acceptance shall not obligate the department to expend funds to carry out such act or purpose.

The bill allows such departments to transfer unspent gift funds to the Department of the Treasury to reduce the deficit.

The Government Accountability Office shall report to Congress on how each department manages such funds and how they are used, including recommendations for enhancing such management and use of funds.

]]> DONATE Act Display Title DONATE Act Short Title(s) as Introduced DONATE Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Donations for Our Nation’s Advancement, Transformation, and Enhancement Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to allow the heads of certain Executive departments to accept conditional gifts on behalf of Executive departments, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s761is/xml/BILLS-116s761is.xml 2019-03-12 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.