[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3767 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3767

To require Executive agencies to make public all funding reprogramming 
                   requests, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 18, 2018

  Mr. Merkley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Executive agencies to make public all funding reprogramming 
                   requests, 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 in Federal Spending Act 
of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO NOTIFY REGARDING REPROGRAMMING AND TRANSFER OF 
              FUNDS.

    (a) Definition of Executive Agency.--In this section, the term 
``Executive agency'' has the meaning given the term in section 105 of 
title 5, United States Code.
    (b) Requirement.--If an Executive agency requests a reprogramming 
of funds or uses authority available to the Executive agency to 
reprogram or transfer funds, the Executive agency shall--
            (1) concurrently post on the website of the Executive 
        agency a notice of the request, reprogramming, or transfer; and
            (2) if the request, reprogramming, or transfer is for an 
        amount that is not less than $5,000,000, concurrently notify 
        each member of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
        and the House of Representatives.
    (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to supersede or otherwise alter any other provision of 
Federal law that imposes notification or other requirements relating to 
the reprogramming or transfer of funds by Executive agencies.
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