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The bill improves transparency and oversight of federal subawards and can simplify reporting through standardization, but does so at the cost of new reporting burdens, increased administrative spending, and potential privacy risks for recipients.
Taxpayers and the public will get more accurate, accessible data on federal subawards, making federal grant flows more transparent and easier to scrutinize.
State, local governments, nonprofits, and small businesses will benefit from standardized reporting that can reduce duplicative data submissions and simplify compliance across agencies.
Congress and oversight bodies will receive regular implementation reports from the GSA Inspector General and Administrator, improving accountability and enabling more informed legislative oversight of subaward spending.
Nonprofits, small businesses, and state/local awardees will face new reporting requirements for first- and second-tier subawards that increase administrative workload and compliance costs.
Federal agencies and taxpayers will incur costs to expand data collection, upgrade systems, and enforce the new reporting standards, increasing administrative spending.
Greater public availability of detailed subaward data may expose sensitive or proprietary information about recipients, raising privacy and competitive concerns for some small businesses and nonprofits.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires review and modernization of the federal subaward reporting system, standardized reporting, two-tier subaward data collection, and annual implementation reports to Congress.
Official title: To require the Inspector General to submit a report on the Federal subaward reporting system, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 16, 2025 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress January 16, 2025
Requires a full review and modernization of the federal subaward reporting system used to track first-tier (and in time second-tier) subawards under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act. The bill orders a GSA Inspector General review within 180 days, directs GSA (with OMB and the relevant Secretary) to issue and annually update a plan to standardize and improve reporting, and requires agencies to collect specified two-tier subaward data and implement agency plans on a multiyear timeline with annual progress reports to Congress.