LEDGER Act
What this could mean for your district
The LEDGER Act requires the Department of the Treasury to create a system that tracks government spending across all departments. • This policy could enhance transparency in how federal funds are allocated, which may be of interest to local taxpayers. • Improved tracking of federal spending could potentially impact local public services that rely on federal funding. • There may be questions about the resources needed to implement this tracking system effectively and how it could affect existing financial management processes. AI-generated from official bill summary and plain-English note; verify with official text.
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Introduced in House
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.
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