[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3699 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3699

To amend title 31, United States Code, to require an annual report from 
the Financial Management Service within the Department of the Treasury 
regarding amounts paid or payable by Federal agencies to the judgement 
                     fund, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 7, 2015

Mr. Westmoreland (for himself, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, and Mr. Smith of 
  Missouri) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require an annual report from 
the Financial Management Service within the Department of the Treasury 
regarding amounts paid or payable by Federal agencies to the judgement 
                     fund, 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 ``Judgement Fund Taxpayer 
Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT FROM THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE.

    Section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Not later than January 1 of each year, the Financial 
Management Service shall report to Congress the following information 
with regard to each agency (as defined in section 551 of title 5) on 
account of payments made from sums appropriated by this section:
            ``(1) The total amount paid in reimbursement by that agency 
        during the preceding fiscal year on account of each such 
        payment.
            ``(2) The total amount still due from that agency in 
        reimbursement for each such payment, as of the end of the 
        preceding fiscal year.
            ``(3) For each of the amounts described in paragraph (1) or 
        (2), the name of the plaintiff or claimant to whom the payment 
        was made from sums so appropriated.''.
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