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H.R. 3481 115th Congress House

Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act

Official title: To require the inclusion of audit information on the website required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 27, 2017 Introduced by: Mike Johnson Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act

This bill amends the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require the Office of Management and Budget's searchable website on federal awards to allow the public to search for and download the results of audits performed on non-federal entities that expend such awards.

The Department of the Treasury shall coordinate the transfer of the results of any such audit.

The Government Accountability Office must submit either a certification that this bill's requirements have been fully implemented or, if it has not been fully implemented, the status of such implementation.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3481: Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3481/
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"H.R. 3481: Increasing Transparency in Federal Audits Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3481/.
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H.R. 3481, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3481/.
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