LEDGER Act

Locating Every Disbursement in Government Expenditure Records Act or the LEDGER Act

This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to implement a system that tracks all outlays from each appropriation, receipt, or other fund account in the Treasury by each department, agency, office, or other establishment in the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the federal government. The system must also track the period of availability of the amounts in the applicable appropriation, receipt, or other fund account.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4091 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4091

   To require adequate traceability for expenditures by the Federal 
                              Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 24, 2025

 Mr. Haridopolos (for himself, Mr. Knott, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Webster of 
 Florida, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Fine, Mr. 
 Stutzman, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Kennedy of Utah, Mr. Downing, Mr. Barr, Mr. 
  Patronis, Mr. Buchanan, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Nehls, Mr. Flood, Mr. 
   Gill of Texas, Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona, Mrs. Spartz, Mr. Wied, Mr. 
 McDowell, Mr. Moore of North Carolina, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Davidson, Mr. 
Onder, Mr. Dunn of Florida, Ms. King-Hinds, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Collins, 
Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Guest, Mr. Rose, Ms. Fedorchak, 
Mr. Ezell, Mr. Steube, Mr. Perry, Mr. Begich, Mr. McGuire, Mr. Moore of 
West Virginia, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Baumgartner, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. 
   Rutherford, Mr. Crank, Mr. Finstad, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Barrett, Mr. 
    Taylor, and Mr. Rulli) introduced the following bill; which was 
      referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require adequate traceability for expenditures by the Federal 
                              Government.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Locating Every Disbursement in 
Government Expenditure Records Act'' or the ``LEDGER Act''.

SEC. 2. TRACEABILITY OF EXPENDITURES.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 3517. Traceability of expenditures
    ``Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
section, the Secretary of the Treasury shall implement a system that 
tracks all outlays from each appropriation, receipt, or other fund 
account in the Treasury by each department, agency, office, or other 
establishment in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the 
United States Government, including disbursements subject to the 
requirements under section 3325, which shall include tracking the 
period of availability of the amounts in the applicable appropriation, 
receipt, or other fund account.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 35 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 3516 the following:

``3517. Traceability of expenditures.''.
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