S.Amdt. 2899

SA 2899. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1216. ENHANCING THE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF
UNITED STATES FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Foreign Assistance Transparency and Accountability
Enhancement Act''.
(b) Information on United States Foreign Assistance
Program.--Section 4(b)(1) of the Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2394c(b)(1)) is amended
to read as follows:
``(1) In general.--The information described in subsection
(a)--
``(A) shall be published on a detailed basis, such as by
program, activity, or award; and
``(B) shall include, and shall be searchable by--
``(i) country or region, as appropriate;
``(ii) funding agency;
``(iii) managing agency;
``(iv) sector;
``(v) appropriations account;
``(vi) fiscal year; and
``(vii) as determined by the type of activity--

``(I) activity identifier;
``(II) activity name;
``(III) start date;
``(IV) end date; and
``(V) implementing partners, including data, or links to
data, as appropriate, on subcontracts valued in excess of
$30,000 and subawards valued in excess of $25,000, as
required to be reported on the Subaward Reporting System of
the General Services Administration in compliance with the
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
(Public Law 109-282).''.

(c) Modification to Inclusion Requirements.--Section
4(b)(3)(A) of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability
Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2394c(b)(3)(A)) is amended to read as
follows:
``(A) Health or security of implementing partners.--If the
Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United States
Agency for International Development or, after consultation
with the Secretary of State, the head of any other Federal
department or agency determines that the inclusion of a
required item of information online would jeopardize the
health or security of an implementing partner or program
beneficiary or would require the release of proprietary
information of an implementing partner or program
beneficiary, the head of the Federal department or agency
shall submit such determination in writing to the appropriate
congressional committees, including the basis for such
determination.''.
(d) Report.--The Comptroller General of the United States
shall conduct annual spot checks to ensure compliance by
prime implementers of acquisition and assistance awards
relating to covered United States foreign assistance (as
defined in section 2(3) of the Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2394c note)), with the
statutory requirement--
(1) to provide quality data regarding subcontracts and
subawards on the Subaward Reporting System of the General
Services Administration; and
(2) to submit an annual report summarizing such data to the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
(e) Ineligibility for Future Awards.--Prime implementers
that fail to provide quality data regarding subcontracts and
subawards pursuant to the Federal Funding Accountability and
Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282) and section 4
of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of
2016, as amended by this section, for 2 consecutive fiscal
years shall be ineligible for acquisition and assistance
awards during the following fiscal year and during each
fiscal year thereafter until the Secretary of State, the
USAID Administrator, or, after consultation with the
Secretary of State, the head of any other Federal department
or agency determines that the prime implementer has taken
appropriate measures to fully comply with such Acts.
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