[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 800 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 800

To require the President to update and modify the website recovery.gov.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 2, 2009

 Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To require the President to update and modify the website recovery.gov.

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

SECTION 1. MODIFICATIONS TO RECOVERY.GOV.

    In order to facilitate the timely distribution of funds under the 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Public Law 111-5) and to ensure 
that such funds are used as quickly and efficiently as possible to help 
restore economic growth, the President shall modify and update the 
website recovery.gov to--
            (1) ensure that States, cities, counties, towns, townships, 
        parishes, villages, or other general purpose political 
        subdivisions of a State can easily ascertain--
                    (A) whether such entity is eligible for any funds 
                under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act;
                    (B) any application deadlines that are applicable 
                to the receipt of such funds; and
                    (C) the contact information of any office, agency, 
                program, or other entity responsible for the 
                distribution of such funds; and
            (2) create an online database that catalogues all programs 
        and activities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
        Act.
                                 <all>