Official Summaries

Federal Accountability Committee for Transparency Act or the FACT Act

This bill delays termination of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee until December 31, 2026. (This committee, part of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, was established to promote transparency and support oversight of the coronavirus response and certain coronavirus-related funds.)

The bill also renames the committee as the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2277 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2277

 To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response Accountability 
  Committee through December 31, 2026, and to change the name of such 
Committee to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2025

Mr. Sessions (for himself, Mr. Comer, and Mr. Connolly) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
                           Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the CARES Act to extend the Pandemic Response Accountability 
  Committee through December 31, 2026, and to change the name of such 
Committee to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee, 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 ``Federal Accountability Committee for 
Transparency Act'' or the ``FACT Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND NAME CHANGE OF PANDEMIC RESPONSE ACCOUNTABILITY 
              COMMITTEE.

    (a) In General.--Section 15010 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-
136; 134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``Pandemic Response 
        Accountability Committee'' and inserting ``Fraud Prevention and 
        Accountability Committee''; and
            (2) in subsection (k), by striking ``September 30, 2025'' 
        and inserting ``December 31, 2026''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 15010 of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116-136; 134 Stat. 540; 5 U.S.C. 424 note), as 
amended by the preceding subsection, is further amended--
            (1) in the heading, by striking ``pandemic response 
        accountability committe'' and inserting ``fraud prevention and 
        accountability committee''; and
            (2) by striking ``section 6 of the Inspector General Act of 
        1978 (5 U.S.C. App.)'' and inserting ``section 406 of title 5, 
        United States Code'' each place such phrase appears in such 
        section;
            (3) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(C), by inserting 
                ``Government'' before ``Reform'';
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``section 11 of 
                the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App)'' and 
                inserting ``section 424 of title 5, United States 
                Code''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (5), by striking ``Pandemic 
                Response Accountability Committee'' and inserting 
                ``Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee''; and
            (4) in subsection (e)(3)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``section 6 of 
                the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App)'' and 
                inserting ``section 406 of title 5, United States 
                Code''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``section 
                4(b)(1) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
                App.)'' inserting ``section 404(b)(1) of title 5, 
                United States Code''.
    (c) References.--Any reference to the Pandemic Response 
Accountability Committee in any other Federal law, Executive order, 
rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or 
pertaining to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, shall be 
deemed to refer to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee.
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