[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3766 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3766
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006 to require recipients of Federal awards to collect and report data
relating to subawards granted to entities outside of the United States,
and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 31, 2023
Mr. Gallagher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Accountability
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A BILL
To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006 to require recipients of Federal awards to collect and report data
relating to subawards granted to entities outside of the United States,
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 ``Tracking Receipts to Adversarial
Countries for Knowledge of Spending Act'' or the ``TRACKS Act''.
SEC. 2. FOREIGN SUBAWARDS.
Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency
Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public Law 109-282) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
``(9) Subaward.--The term `subaward'--
``(A) means an award provided by a pass-through
entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry
out part of a Federal award received by the pass-
through entity;
``(B) includes an award described in subparagraph
(A) that is passed from a subrecipient to another
subrecipient; and
``(C) does not include payments to a beneficiary of
a Federal program.''; and
(2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following:
``(3) Reporting of foreign subawards.--
``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph:
``(i) Covered subaward.--The term `covered
subaward'--
``(I) means a subaward awarded to
an entity located in a foreign country
of concern (as defined in section 9901
of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry
National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 4651)); and
``(II) includes a subaward
described in subclause (I) of any
amount.
``(ii) Prime award recipient.--The term
`prime award recipient', with respect to a
covered subaward, means the entity that
directly receives the Federal award from which
the covered subaward originates.
``(B) Reporting.--The recipient of a covered
subaward shall disclose data with respect to the
covered subaward in the same manner as subawards are
disclosed in accordance with paragraph (2).
``(C) Guidance.--Not later than 90 days after the
date of enactment of the Tracking Receipts to
Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending Act,
the Director shall issue guidance that establishes
consistency for complying with this paragraph for
agencies, prime award recipients, and covered subaward
recipients, including establishing standards for
disclosed data.''.
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