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HR225Passed House

HUD Transparency Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-07
Introduced
12
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Monica De La Cruz
Monica De La Cruz
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 98.2% (568 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/D000594

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (12)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

12 cosponsors on record at Congress.gov. The named list is syncing into Govwatch and will appear here shortly — view on Congress.gov in the meantime.

Latest Action

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

2025-12-02

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsReferred To · 2025-12-02
  • House Committee on Financial ServicesReported By · 2025-07-15

Previously

  • House Committee on Financial ServicesMarkup By · 2025-06-10
  • House Committee on Financial ServicesReferred To · 2025-01-07

Plain-English Summary

HUD Transparency Act of 2025 This bill requires the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to annually testify before Congress. Specifically, the office must testify regarding efforts to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse; ability to conduct and supervise audits, investigations, and reviews; actions to identify opportunities for HUD programs to progress and succeed; recommendations to improve overall efficiency and public accountability; the extent to which HUD has resources sufficient to carry out its statutory mission; and ongoing activities regarding any such additional work.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Housing and Community Development
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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