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To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure real-time public access to Federal award information.

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure real-time public access to Federal award information.

Introduced Mar 18, 2026

Latest action (Mar 18, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Referred to
Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics

Summary
  • Amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require Federal award information to be posted within 3 days of the award instead of within 30 days.
  • Aims to provide the public with real-time access to Federal award data.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
17 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Josh Brecheen’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • QMO LLC $6,600
  • JURIX INC $6,600
  • ULINE $6,600
  • AFCEA INTERNATIONAL $4,800
  • EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC TEACHING LEARNIN $4,300

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Josh Brecheen → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 18, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. · house
  2. Mar 18, 2026 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 18, 2026

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 18, 2026

Mr. Brecheen (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Roy, Mr. Begich, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Donalds, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Self, and Mr. Fine) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure real-time public access to Federal award information.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REAL-TIME PUBLIC ACCESS TO FEDERAL AWARD INFORMATION.

Section 2(c)(4) of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282) is amended by striking “not later than 30 days after the award of any Federal award requiring a posting” and inserting “within 3 days after the award of any Federal award requiring a posting to ensure that the public obtains real-time access to the information concerned”. <all>

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