[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2917 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2917
To track taxpayer dollars sent to adversarial countries and foreign
entities of concern, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 14, 2025
Ms. Stefanik introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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A BILL
To track taxpayer dollars sent to adversarial countries and foreign
entities of concern, 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, including a grant, contract,
cooperative agreement, other transaction agreement, or
other financial transaction, 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--
``(aa) 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)); or
``(bb) a foreign entity 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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