Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 11, 2026 Became Public Law No: 119-106.
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.
- IntroducedMar 11, 2025
- Passed HouseJul 20, 2026
- Passed SenateAug 7, 2026
- To the PresidentSep 3, 2026
- Became lawSep 11, 2026Public Law 119-106
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 11, 2025 to Apr 7, 2025; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Original | Mar 11, 2025 |
| D-NH | Maggie Goodlander | Original | Mar 11, 2025 |
| R-WY | Harriet M. Hageman | Apr 7, 2025 |
Committees 1
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 Mar 11, 2025Markup Mar 18, 2026 |
Actions 15
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 11, 2026Became Public Law No: 119-106.
- Sep 11, 2026Signed by President.
- Sep 3, 2026Presented to President.
- Aug 10, 2026Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Aug 7, 2026Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4547)
- Jul 21, 2026Received in the Senate, read twice.
- Jul 20, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4657-4658)
- Jul 20, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4657-4659)
- Jul 20, 2026Mr. Burlison moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Jul 20, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2069.
- Jul 20, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 18, 2026Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 0.
- Mar 18, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Mar 11, 2025Introduced in House
- Mar 11, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
In the Congressional Record 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4547 | Joni Ernst R-IA | Aug 7, 2026 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S4465–S4467 | Joni Ernst R-IA, Ted Cruz R-TX | Aug 5, 2026 |
| House | Debate and remarks H4657–H4659Text printed H4657 | Barry Moore R-AL, Eric Burlison R-MO, Suhas Subramanyam D-VA | Jul 20, 2026 |
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.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- May 26, 2026H.R. 2069, Stop Secret Spending ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 18, 2026
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 45, March 11, 2025, page H1152.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 872 | Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025 | Public law contains the text | Jun 15, 2026 |
Titles 5
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
- Short Titles from ENR (Enrolled) bill text
- Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- —Enrolled Bill
- Jul 21, 2026Received in Senate
- Jul 20, 2026Engrossed in House
- Mar 11, 2025Introduced 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.
