H.R. 2069
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Sponsor: Barry Moore
3 cosponsors
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
This bill expands a requirement for federal agencies to report expenditures on the USAspending.gov website to include other transaction agreement expenditures. (Other transaction agreements, or OTAs, are contractual instruments other than standard procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements; they are exempt from many federal procurement laws and regulations).
Under current law, federal agencies must report expenditures on federal awards to USAspending.gov with the term federal award defined as federal grants, loans, cooperative agreements, contracts, and certain other types of expenditures. This bill expands the definition of federal award to include expenditures under OTAs, and therefore such expenditures must be included on the USAspending.gov website.
The Department of the Treasury must ensure that data relating to OTAs are automatically transmitted to the website and a centralized view of this data is available on the website. Treasury must also annually post on the USAspending.gov website a report that includes (1) the total amount of federal spending on federal awards for which data has not been posted on the website, and (2) the reason why such spending data was not posted.
For 10 years after enactment, the Office of Inspector General of specified federal agencies must periodically submit to Congress and make publicly available a report assessing the agency's spending data and use of data standards.
Text of the bill
(a) Inspector General reports. Section 6(a) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking each Federal agency and inserting each agency described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 901(b) of title 31, United States Code;
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking Federal agency and inserting agency; and
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking Federal agency and inserting agency; and
(2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
(2) Deadlines. The inspector general of each agency described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 901(b) of title 31, United States Code, shall submit to Congress and make publicly available a report described in paragraph (1)(B)—
(A) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025; and
(B) not less than frequently than once every 2 years after the date described in subparagraph (A) until the date that is 10 years after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 on the date of submission of the report required under section 3521(f) or 9105(a)(3) of title 31, United States Code, for the applicable fiscal year.
(b) Full disclosure of Federal funds
(1) In general. Section 3 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended—
(A) in subsection (b)—
(i) paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking a Federal agency or component of a Federal agency and inserting a Federal agency or a component of a Federal agency included on the list posted under subsection (e)(2); and
(ii) in paragraph (2)(B), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking to be posted and inserting to be posted by a Federal agency or a component of a Federal agency included on the list posted under subsection (e)(2); and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
(c) Quality of information
(1) In general. The Secretary and the Director, in consultation with the heads of Federal agencies, shall establish requirements to ensure that the information to be posted under subsection (b) that is posted by a Federal agency or component of a Federal agency is complete and accurate.
(2) Federal agency responsibility. The head of each Federal agency or component of a Federal agency posting data under subsection (b) shall ensure that the data is complete and accurate.
(3) Authority to verify accuracy. The Secretary and the Director may verify that the data posted under subsection (b) by a Federal agency or component of a Federal agency are complete, accurate, and consistent.
(d) Display standards. The Secretary, in consultation with the Director, shall ensure that the heads of Federal agencies that post information under subsection (b) comply with display standards established by the Secretary.
(e) Agency reporting determination. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025, and not less frequently than once every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary, in coordination with the Director, shall—
(1) assess and make a determination with respect to which Federal agencies and components of Federal agencies are required to post information under subsection (b);
(2) publish a list of the Federal agencies and components of Federal agencies determined under paragraph (1) on the website established under section 2(b)(1); and
(3) provide to the head and inspector general of each Federal agency or component of a Federal agency included on the list published under paragraph (2) written notice of the inclusion of the Federal agency or component of a Federal agency on the list.
(2) Effective date. The amendments made by paragraph (1)(A) shall take effect on the date on which the Secretary publishes the first list under section 3(e)(2) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note), as added by paragraph (1).