[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7302 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7302

 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require 
  public housing agencies to disclose contracts entered into, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2024

    Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require 
  public housing agencies to disclose contracts entered into, 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 ``Contracting Accountability and 
Transparency Act'' or the ``CAT Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED.

    The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, not later 
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, require each 
public housing agencies to publicly disclose, on the website of the 
public housing agency, with respect to each contract entered into by 
such public housing agency the following information--
            (1) all material information about the contract, including 
        the goods and service provided;
            (2) the vendor;
            (3) the date of the solicitation of the contract;
            (4) the bids and quotes solicited; and
            (5) and the official who solicited the contract.
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