Cost of War Act of 2022

Cost of War Act of 2022

This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to post on its public website information relating to the cost to U.S. taxpayers of any overseas contingency operation conducted by the U.S. Armed Forces on or after September 18, 2001. DOD must update such information not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7147 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7147

  To direct the Secretary of Defense to make publicly available on a 
  website of the Department of Defense the cost to each United States 
  taxpayer of certain contingency operations conducted by the United 
              States Armed Forces, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2022

  Ms. Williams of Georgia (for herself, Mr. Meijer, and Ms. Jacobs of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Defense to make publicly available on a 
  website of the Department of Defense the cost to each United States 
  taxpayer of certain contingency operations conducted by the United 
              States Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Cost of War Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF COST OF CERTAIN MILITARY OPERATIONS TO 
              EACH UNITED STATES TAXPAYER.

    Section 1090 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) Publication of Information.--'' 
        before ``The Secretary of Defense'';
            (2) by striking ``of each of the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, 
        and Syria.'' and inserting ``of any overseas contingency 
        operation conducted by the United States Armed Forces on or 
        after September 18, 2001.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(b) Display of Information.--The information required to be 
posted under subsection (a) shall--
            ``(1) be posted directly on the website of the Department 
        of Defense, in an accessible and clear format;
            ``(2) include corresponding documentation as links or 
        attachments; and
            ``(3) include, for each overseas contingency operation--
                    ``(A) both the total cost to each taxpayer, and the 
                cost to each taxpayer for each fiscal year, of 
                conducting the overseas contingency operation;
                    ``(B) a list of countries where the overseas 
                contingency operation has taken place; and
                    ``(C) for each such country, both the total cost to 
                each taxpayer, and the cost to each taxpayer for each 
                fiscal year, of conducting the overseas contingency 
                operation in that country.
    ``(c) Updates.--The Secretary shall ensure that all the information 
required to be posted under subsection (a) is updated by not later than 
90 days after the last day of each fiscal year.
    ``(d) Contingency Operation Defined.--In this section, the term 
`contingency operation' has the meaning given such term in section 
101(a)(13) of title 10, United States Code.''.
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