[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1911 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1911

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to require 
 funding to help award recipients defray the costs of data collection 
  requirements initiated pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2009

   Mr. Connolly of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to require 
 funding to help award recipients defray the costs of data collection 
  requirements initiated pursuant to such Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency and Accountability in 
State and Local Contracting Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR SET-ASIDE FOR STATE AND LOCAL RECIPIENTS OF 
              AWARD FUNDING TO DEFRAY COSTS OF DATA COLLECTION.

    Section 1552 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
(Public Law 111-5) is amended by striking ``may,'' and all that follows 
through ``reasonably'' and inserting ``shall''.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT FOR SET-ASIDE FOR AGENCY-WIDE OVERSIGHT.

    Subtitle D of title XV of division A of the American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section:

``SEC. 1555. SET-ASIDE FOR AGENCY-WIDE OVERSIGHT.

    ``Federal agencies receiving funds under this Act may set aside an 
amount up to 0.5 percent of covered funds directed to that agency for 
the purposes of conducting comprehensive, agency-wide oversight and 
administration of projects under this Act.''.
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