3.0.0 778 2025-12-05T08:55:13Z 2025-12-05T08:55:13Z Senate S S 2023-03-14 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/778 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-03-14T20:14:56Z 118 2968 HR 2023-04-27 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Related bill CRS 2023-03-14 ssga00 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. IntroReferral 2023-03-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N B001310 Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN] Mike Braun R IN 2023-03-14 True S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL 2023-03-30 False Government Operations and Politics Government information and archives 2025-07-10T18:08:02Z Government Operations and Politics 2023-03-29T14:18:27Z

00 2023-03-14 Introduced in Senate 2023-06-22T16:34:30Z <p><b>Cost Openness and Spending Transparency Act of 2023 or the COST Act</b> <strong>of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill requires recipients of federal funds to disclose financing information relating to programs, projects, or activities carried out using such funds.</p> <p>Specifically, such a recipient (including a state or local government or a recipient of a federal research grant) must clearly state in any press release, request for proposals, bid solicitation, or other document describing the activity the amount and percentage of federal funding and the amount and percentage of nongovernmental funding.</p> <p>An individual or entity carrying out a program, project, or activity that is carried out using federal funds must, as part of the performance progress reporting, include a certification indicating whether the individual or entity complied with the disclosure requirements for communications containing not more than 280 characters relating to the program, project, or activity.</p> <p>The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must annually</p> <ul> <li>review a random sampling of public communications issued by agencies and recipients of federal funds for compliance with the disclosure requirements, and</li> <li>make publicly available the findings of the review.</li> </ul> <p>The OMB must make available to the public a mechanism to anonymously report communications that do not comply. </p>

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