H.R. 5060: To amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 to require data with respect to Federal financial assistance to be available for public access in a searchable and user friendly form.
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H.R. 5060: To amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 to require data with respect to Federal financial assistance to be available for public access in a searchable and user friendly form.
109th Congress · introduced 2006-03-30 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2006-03-30 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7] · what a sponsor is
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- Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
To amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 to require data with respect to Federal financial assistance to be available for public access in a searchable and user friendly form.
Plain summary
Instructs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to work with the Administrator of General Services and other agencies to make available on the Internet, from a single website database, at no cost to the public, downloadable data regarding federal financial assistance in accordance with this Act and the E-Government Act of 2002. Requires such data to: (1) contain all information and types of information (data fields) collected through the Federal Assistance Award Data System, Grants.gov, or any other existing federal database, as well as specified additional information about each award; (2) appear within 30 days of the award of such assistance; (3) display in a form permitting full searching and aggregation of all data fields across all agencies; (4) identify the federal financial assistance a recipient has received during the preceding 10-year period; (5) include lists of federal financial assistance awards and the dates and amounts of federal fund disbursements; and (6) identify subgrantees that are nonfederal entities.
Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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To amend the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 to require data with respect to Federal financial assistance to be available for public access in a searchable and user friendly form.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)
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Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7] · 8 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-109hr5060.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/109/hr>
Record fed-us-cong109-hr5060 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109