US Congress House Bill 1715 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 12)
Status: Introduced on May 4 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-05-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
Pending: House Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Multilingual Services Accounting Act - Requires federal agency Chief Financial Officers to include multilingual services accounting information in their mandatory annual reports to the agency head and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Defines multilingual services to include: (1) services provided by interpreters hired by an agency; (2) services resulting in additional expenses which an agency provides to assist its employees or contractors to learn a non-English language; (3) agency preparation, translation, printing, or recordation of materials in a language other than English; and (4) services provided or performed for the federal government by agency employees or contractors that require speaking a non-English language that result in wage differentials or benefits provided by the agency. Requires the OMB Director's annual financial management status report to certain congressional committees to contain a Multilingual Services Expenses Report that includes: (1) a summary and analysis of the multilingual services accounting information prepared by each agency Chief Financial Officer, and (2) a description of any changes to the existing financial management structure of the federal government needed to establish an integrated individual agency accounting of all multilingual services conducted by each agency. Requires the OMB Director to issue guidance that an agency Chief Financial Officer must follow in compiling multilingual services accounting information.

Multilingual Services Accounting Act

Rep. Virginia Foxx [R-NC]	Rep. Todd Akin [R-MO]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Rep. Jeff Duncan [R-SC]
Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA]	Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]	Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]
Rep. Ron Paul [R-TX]	Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [R-CA]	Rep. Edward Royce [R-CA]	Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
2011-05-04	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1715/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1715/BILLS-112hr1715ih.pdf