Agency Accountability Act of 2024
Latest action · Apr 30, 2024 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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, 2024
- Passed HouseApr 29, 2024
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Agency Accountability Act of 2024
This bill requires the Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of each agency that does not meet specified criteria for contracting with small businesses to testify before the Senate Committee on Small Business and the House Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Specifically, if an agency receives below a letter grade of A on its annual scorecard for small business contracting or does not meet two or more of the government-wide goals for contracting with small businesses, the director must testify before such committees about the reasons why the agency did not meet these benchmarks.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 29, 2024.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-KY | Morgan McGarvey | Original | Jan 29, 2024 |
| R-NY | Nick LaLota | Original | Jan 29, 2024 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Jan 29, 2024Markup Jan 31, 2024Reported Feb 23, 2024 |
| Senate | Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee | Referred Apr 30, 2024 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 30, 2024Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
- Apr 29, 2024Mr. Williams (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Apr 29, 2024Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2642-2643)
- Apr 29, 2024DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 7103.
- Apr 29, 2024Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2642)
- Apr 29, 2024Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 23, 2024Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 118-396.
- Feb 23, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 325.
- Jan 31, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jan 31, 2024Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 0.
- Jan 29, 2024Introduced in House
- Jan 29, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H2642, H2643Text printed H2642 | Morgan McGarvey D-KY, Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY, Pete Stauber R-MN, Roger Williams R-TX | Apr 29, 2024 |
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Mar 14, 2024H.R. 7103, Agency Accountability Act of 2024As ordered reported by the House Committee on Small Business on January 31, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 16, January 29, 2024, page H272.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Small Business Act to require Federal agencies to testify and report on scores received under the scorecard program for evaluating Federal agency compliance with small business contracting goals, to testify for failure to meet Governmentwide contracting goals, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Agency Accountability Act of 2024
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Agency Accountability Act of 2024
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Agency Accountability Act of 2024
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- Agency Accountability Act of 2024
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 30, 2024Referred in Senate
- Apr 29, 2024Engrossed in House
- Feb 23, 2024Reported in House
- Jan 29, 2024Introduced 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.
