S. 1868: Quarterly Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-07-27 · Commerce · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 277.

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Where it came from: introduced 2015-07-27 · official record
Who proposed it: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] · what a sponsor is
What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 277. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Quarterly Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015

Plain summary

Quarterly Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill extends through FY2030 the authority of the Department of Commerce to conduct the quarterly financial report program under which it collects and publishes quarterly financial statistics of business operations, organization, practices, management, and relation to other businesses, including data on sales, expenses, assets, liabilities, and other measures of financial condition. (Sec. 3) Commerce shall review and report to Congress on the data security procedures of the Bureau of the Census, including those implemented since the data breach of systems of the Office of Personnel Management that occurred during FY2015.

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Official text

Quarterly Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015

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Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] · 0 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 1868, Quarterly Financial Reporting Reauthorization Act of 2015 (2015-09-01)

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Securities: Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114s1868.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/s>

Record fed-us-cong114-s1868 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114