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Purchase Card Waste Elimination Act of 2005

Introduced: February 18, 2005 Introduced by: Collins, Susan M. Republican · Maine See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 12 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 6, 2006
Held at the desk.
Jun 6, 2006
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Jun 6, 2006
Received in the House.
Jun 6, 2006
Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5514)
Jun 6, 2006
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5514)
Jun 6, 2006
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S5513-5514; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S5513-5514)
May 19, 2006
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 438.
May 19, 2006
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins with amendments. Without written report.
Jun 22, 2005
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Feb 18, 2005
Introduced in Senate
Feb 18, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Feb 18, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1718-1719)
 Amendments to this bill 1

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AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest action
SAMDT 4,191 — To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidelines identifying opportunities … Agreed to Jun 6, 2006
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Purchase Card Waste Elimination Act of 2006 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidelines to assist executive agencies in improving the management of the use of the governmentwide commercial purchase card for making micropurchases.

Requires the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to continue efforts to improve reporting by financial institutions that issue such a card so that GSA has the data needed to: (1) identify opportunities for achieving savings; and (2) actively pursue point-of-sale discounts with major vendors accepting it so that any federal government purchaser using it can benefit from such discounts.

Requires the senior procurement executive for each executive agency, as directed by OMB, to report periodically to OMB on the actions taken in the agency pursuant to the guidelines.

Requires OMB to report annually to specified congressional committees on the progress made in: (1) improving management of the use of the purchase card; and (2) achieving certain savings in micropurchases made with it.

Requires GSA, in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Financial Management Service, to develop procedures to subject to the Federal Payment Levy program any purchase card payments to federal contractors.

Requires GSA to report annually to specified congressional committees on all first class and business class travel by executive agency employees undertaken at federal expense.

What's happening now June 6, 2006

Held at the desk.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 457: Purchase Card Waste Elimination Act of 2006. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-S-457/
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