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FACT Act

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.

Introduced Mar 21, 2025

Latest action (Mar 25, 2025) Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Legislative subjects (7)
Cardiovascular and respiratory healthCongressional oversightExecutive Office of the PresidentFraud offenses and financial crimesGovernment ethics and transparency, public corruptionGovernment studies and investigationsInfectious and parasitic diseases

Summary
  • Changes the name of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee to the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee.
  • Extends the committee's deadline from September 30, 2025 to December 31, 2026.
  • Updates all references to the committee in federal law, executive orders, rules, and regulations to reflect the new name.
  • Makes technical corrections to update legal references in the committee's statutory provisions.

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Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors

Actions (4)
  1. Mar 25, 2025 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0. · house
  2. Mar 25, 2025 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
  3. Mar 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  4. Mar 21, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 21, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

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

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. <all>

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