119-hr2917

[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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