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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 4245 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Lobbying Disclosure Act... · Sec. 501

Sec. 501. Improving application programming interface and website data elements

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Section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 ( Public Law 109–282 ; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note) is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (2)(A)(ii), by striking and delivery orders and inserting lease agreements and assignments, and delivery orders ; in paragraph (3)— in subparagraph (C), by striking and after the semicolon; in subparagraph (D), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: programmatically search and access all data in a serialized machine readable format (such as XML) via a web-services application programming interface. ; and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph: The term congressionally directed spending item means a provision or report language included primarily at the request of a Member of Congress providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality, or congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process. ; and in subsection (b)(1)— in subparagraph (F), by striking the period at the end and inserting semicolon; by redesignating subparagraph
(G)as subparagraph (J); and by inserting after subparagraph
(F)the following new subparagraphs: to the extent possible, the Federal agency, including the bureau, office, or subdivision, that authorized the Federal award; after January 1, 2015, for all contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, task orders, lease agreements and assignments, and delivery orders— information about the extent of competition in making the award, including the number of bids or proposals determined to be responsive during the competitive process, and if the award was not competed, the legal authority and specific rationale for making the award without full and open competition; the full amount of money that is awarded under a contract or, in the case of lease agreements or assignments, the amount paid to the Government, and the full amount of any options to expand or extend under a contract; the amount of the profit incentive, such as award fees; the type of contract, such as fixed price, cost plus pricing, labor hour contracts, and time and materials contracts; a permanent link to the original solicitation or notice and the solicitation ID; an indication if the contract is the result of legislative mandates, set-asides, preference program requirements, or other criteria, and whether the contract is multi-year, consolidated, or performance based; and an indication if the contract is a congressionally directed spending item; after January 1, 2015, for all grants, subgrants, loans, awards, cooperative agreements, and other forms of financial assistance, an indication if the funding is a congressionally directed spending item; and . Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made by subsection
(a)shall be implemented not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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