US Congress House Bill 5941 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on June 8 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-06-21 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

DHS Audit Requirement Target Act of 2012 or the DART Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take steps to ensure that the full set of consolidated financial statements of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2013 and each fiscal year thereafter are ready in a timely manner and in preparation for an audit as part of preparing the required performance and accountability reports, in order to obtain an unqualified opinion. Requires each annual report submitted by DHS's Chief Financial Officer to include a plan: (1) to obtain such unqualified opinion; (2) that addresses how DHS will eliminate material weaknesses and significant deficiencies in internal controls over financial reporting; and (3) to modernize the financial management systems of DHS, including consideration of alternative approaches that include modernizing existing, and establishing new, financial management systems and associated financial controls.

DART Act

Rep. Todd Platts [R-PA]

Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]

Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management.
2012-06-08	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2012-06-08	House	Referred to House Homeland Security
2012-06-08	House	Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5941/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr5941/BILLS-112hr5941ih.pdf