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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 6344

Introduced

CAT Act

Sponsor
DRitchie Torres· New York
Introduced
December 1, 2025
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
Latest action
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.December 1, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6344 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6344

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require 
public housing agencies to disclose contracts entered into, and for 
other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 1, 2025

Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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A BILL

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require 
public housing agencies to disclose contracts entered into, 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 ``Contracting Accountability and 
Transparency Act'' or the ``CAT Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, not later 
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, require each 
public housing agencies to publicly disclose, on the website of the 
public housing agency, with respect to each contract entered into by 
such public housing agency the following information--
(1) all material information about the contract, including 
the goods and service provided;
(2) the vendor;
(3) the date of the solicitation of the contract;
(4) the bids and quotes solicited; and
(5) the official who solicited the contract.
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