SIGHT Act
Latest action · May 19, 2020 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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.
- IntroducedMay 19, 2020
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Seeking Inspector General's Honest Testimony Act or the SIGHT Act
This bill prohibits the President from blocking inspectors general from reporting to Congress regarding the implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and requires a report to Congress under specified circumstances involving denial of access to records under such act.
Specifically, if the Department of the Treasury Office of Inspector General, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, or the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery determines that Treasury or the White House has not provided timely access or has impeded access to records regarding implementation of the CARES Act, then the office or committee shall report to Congress on the lack of access. If Treasury is responsible for the lack of access, then funding for the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury shall be rescinded until Treasury provides access to the records.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 19, 2020Introduced in Senate
- May 19, 2020Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Appropriations
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional-executive branch relations
- Department of the Treasury
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Executive Office of the President
- Government information and archives
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government studies and investigations
- Health programs administration and funding
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 19, 2020Introduced in Senate
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