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

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.