Emergency Rental Assistance Accountability and Transparency Act of 2022

Emergency Rental Assistance Accountability and Transparency Act of 2022

This bill requires the Office of Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury to conduct monitoring and oversight of the receipt, disbursement, and use of funds made available under the emergency rental assistance program pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and recoup misused funds. The bill provides funding for these activities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7645 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7645

To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to provide for oversight 
of emergency rental assistance amounts by the Inspector General of the 
          Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 3, 2022

   Mr. Emmer (for himself, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Sessions, Mr. 
   Posey, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Huizenga, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Barr, Mr. 
 Williams of Texas, Mr. Hill, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Loudermilk, Mr. Mooney, 
 Mr. Davidson, Mr. Budd, Mr. Kustoff, Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio, Mr. Rose, 
Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Steil, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Timmons, and Mr. 
   Taylor) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to provide for oversight 
of emergency rental assistance amounts by the Inspector General of the 
          Department of the Treasury, 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 ``Emergency Rental Assistance 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OVERSIGHT.

    Section 3201 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (15 U.S.C. 
9058c) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Inspector General Oversight; Recoupment.--
            ``(1) Oversight authority.--The Inspector General of the 
        Department of the Treasury shall conduct monitoring and 
        oversight of the receipt, disbursement, and use of funds made 
        available under this section.
            ``(2) Recoupment.--If the Inspector General of the 
        Department of the Treasury determines that an eligible grantee 
        has failed to comply with subsection (d), the amount equal to 
        the amount of funds used in violation of such subsection shall 
        be booked as a debt of such entity owed to the Federal 
        Government. Amounts recovered under this subsection shall be 
        deposited into the general fund of the Treasury.
            ``(3) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
        the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
        appropriated to the Office of the Inspector General of the 
        Department of the Treasury, $6,500,000 to carry out oversight 
        and recoupment activities under this subsection. Amounts 
        appropriated under the preceding sentence shall remain 
        available until expended.
            ``(4) Authority of inspector general.--Nothing in this 
        subsection shall be construed to diminish the authority of any 
        Inspector General, including such authority as provided in the 
        Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).''.
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