S-269 aims to improve coordination between the SSA’s file of death records and the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay system. Image: Katherine Welles/Shutterstock.com
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is set to vote this week on S-766, the “Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act,” to require annual reporting to Congress on agency projects that are more than five years behind schedule, or have expenditures that are at least $1 billion more than the original cost estimate.
The reported information would have to include a description of each project (including acquisitions, construction, clean-up, or other “time-limited endeavor”); an explanation of any change to the original scope of the project; the original and current expected dates of completion; and more.
The committee also is set to consider:
* S-81, to require agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that the guidance does not have the force and effect of law and is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies.
* S-269, to improve coordination between the SSA’s file of death records and the Treasury Department’s Do Not Pay system.
* S-727, to correct an anomaly that could cause lower retirement benefits for some CBP officers related to their inclusion in the special benefits package for law enforcement officers.
* S-872, to add reporting requirements for agency federal spending information to be reported under USAspending.gov to include other transaction agreements, which are contract mechanisms not covered by the Federal Acquisition Regulation framework.
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