---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 6719"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "6719"
heading: "Reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/6719"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 67 — Federal Payments"
---

# §6719. Reports

- (a) **Reports by Secretary to Congress.—** Before June 2 of each year prior to 2002, the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) personally shall report to the Congress on—
  - (1) the status and operation of the [Local Government](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) Fiscal [Assistance](/usc/31/6501.md?p=1) Fund during the prior fiscal year; and
  - (2) the administration of this chapter, including a complete and detailed analysis of—
    - (A) actions taken to comply with sections [6711](/usc/31/6711.md) through [6715](/usc/31/6715.md), including a description of the kind and extent of noncompliance and the status of pending complaints;
    - (B) the extent to which units of general [local government](/usc/31/6302.md?p=3) receiving payments under this chapter have complied with the requirements of this chapter;
    - (C) the way in which payments under this chapter have been distributed in the jurisdictions receiving payments; and
    - (D) significant problems in carrying out this chapter and recommendations for legislation to remedy the problems.
- (b) **Reports by Units of General Local Government to Secretary.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** At the end of each fiscal year, each [unit of general local government](/usc/31/6501.md?p=10) which received a payment under this chapter for the fiscal year shall submit a report to the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6). The report shall be submitted in the form and at a time prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) and shall be available to the public for inspection. The report shall [state](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2)—
    - (A) the amounts and purposes for which the payment has been appropriated, expended, or obligated in the fiscal year;
    - (B) the relationship of the payment to the relevant functional items in the budget of the government; and
    - (C) the differences between the actual and proposed use of the payment.
  - (2) **Availability of report.—** The [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) shall provide a copy of a report submitted under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) by a [unit of general local government](/usc/31/6501.md?p=10) to the chief executive officer of the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) in which the government is located. The [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6) shall provide the report in the manner and form prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/31/6401.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31001(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1879.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6719, Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1027, related to compliance agreements, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–272, title XIV, § 14001(a)(1), (e), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 327, 329, eff. Oct. 18, 1986.