[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1061 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1061

To require Federal agencies to show receipts and expenditures every two 
                       weeks on agency websites.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2011

Mr. Farenthold (for himself, Ms. Foxx, and Mr. Conaway) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Federal agencies to show receipts and expenditures every two 
                       weeks on agency websites.

    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 ``Federal Agency Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES TO SHOW RECEIPTS AND 
              EXPENDITURES ON WEBSITES.

    (a) Requirement.--Each Federal agency shall publish on the official 
public website of the agency, at the end of each two-week period, a 
statement of all funds received and spent by the agency during that 
two-week period.
    (b) Federal Agency Defined.--In this Act, the term ``Federal 
agency'' has the meaning given the term ``executive agency'' in section 
133 of title 41, United States Code.
    (c) Implementation.--The requirement of this section shall be 
implemented beginning not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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