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Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits government officials from entering into or enforcing a settlement agreement on behalf of the United States (resolving a civil action, a plea agreement, a deferred prosecution agreement, or a nonprosecution agreement) that provides for a payment or a loan to any person or entity other than the United States. The bill provides exceptions to allow payments or loans that: (1) remedy actual harm (including to the environment) caused by the party making the payment or loan and suffered by the payee, or (2) constitute a payment for services rendered in connection with the case or a payment that a court may order for restitution to victims in certain criminal cases or other persons in plea agreements.
Amounts remaining after all claims have been satisfied must be repaid proportionally to each party who contributed to the original payment.
Government officials or agents who violate this prohibition may be removed from office or required to forfeit to the government any money they hold for such purposes to which they may otherwise be entitled.
Federal agencies must report annually for seven years to the Congressional Budget Office about the parties, funding sources, and distribution of funds for their settlement agreements permitted by the exceptions in this bill.
Agency inspectors general must report annually to Congress about any of their agency's settlement agreements that violate this bill.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 732 as passed House amended on Oct 24, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Oct 24, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveOct 24, 2017
House Oct 24, 2017 · the primary vote
Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act
Passed
238 Yea 183 Nay 11 not voting
Party-line vote 7 of 421 voting members broke with their own party: 7 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 732 and vote against it. 26 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 732 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
33 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.