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Department of State and United States Agency for International Development Accountability Act of 2017

Introduced: February 16, 2017 Introduced by: Young, Todd Republican · Indiana See on congress.gov
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Department of State and United States Agency for International Development Accountability Act of 2017

This bill requires: (1) the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to submit: (1) a report listing all outstanding recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that relate to the State Department or USAID that have not been fully implemented, and (2) a report on the implementation status of such recommendations.

The GAO shall report on any discrepancies between State Department-USAID list of outstanding recommendations and GAO's list.

The implementation status report shall include:

  • for any recommendation the State Department or USAID has decided not to fully implement or to implement in a different manner than what was recommended, a detailed justification for the decision;
  • for any recommendation the State Department or USAID has decided to adopt but which has not been fully implemented, a timeline for full implementation; and
  • an explanation for any discrepancies included in the GAO report.
What's happening now February 16, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Coons, Christopher A.
Delaware · Feb 16, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 418: Department of State and United States Agency for International Development Accountability Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-418/
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