Agency Accountability Act of 2019
Latest action · Mar 25, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 29, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Agency Accountability Act of 2019
This bill requires any agency that receives a fee, fine, penalty, or proceeds from a settlement to deposit the amount in the general fund of the Treasury. The bill also prohibits the funds from being used unless the funding is provided in advance in an appropriations bill.
The bill includes exceptions for funds to be paid to a whistle-blower, loan guarantee programs, and insurance programs.
The requirements do not apply to the U.S. Postal Service or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Department of Commerce and the USPTO must report annually to Congress on funds collected by the USPTO from a settlement.
The bill also requires offsetting receipts and collections to be treated as revenue for the purpose of carrying out the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other laws. (Offsetting receipts and collections are funds collected by agencies from other government accounts or from the public in businesslike or market-oriented transactions. Under current law, the collections are treated as negative budget authority and outlays rather than revenue and may be used to offset spending for budget enforcement purposes.)
Cosponsors 84
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 29, 2019 to May 10, 2019; 62 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WV | Alexander X. Mooney | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-MD | Andy Harris | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-GA | Barry Loudermilk | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-OH | Bob Gibbs | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-OH | Brad R. Wenstrup | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-AL | Bradley Byrne | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-TX | Brian Babin | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-AR | Bruce Westerman | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-TX | Chip Roy | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-IL | Darin LaHood | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-TN | David P. Roe | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
| R-NC | David Rouzer | Original | Jan 29, 2019 |
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 29, 2019 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 29, 2019 |
| Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee | Referred Mar 25, 2019 | |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Jan 29, 2019 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jan 29, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 25, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
- Jan 29, 2019Introduced in House
- Jan 29, 2019Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, the Budget, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 18, January 29, 2019, page H1284.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1456 | Agency Accountability Act of 2019 | Related bill | May 14, 2019 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the appropriation of funds to use a fee, fine, penalty, or proceeds from a settlement received by a Federal agency, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Agency Accountability Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Commerce
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Intellectual property
- User charges and fees
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 29, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
