H.R.5258: Earmark Transparency Act of 2010

Bill provisions
Within six months, the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate would set up a website, freely available to the public, listing all earmarks. For each earmark, the website would contain over a dozen pieces of information, including the name of the requestor(s), the amount requested, the amount approved, and the recipient(s). Users would be able to search earmarks by any category, and to download everything in a machine-readable format. Information would be put on the website no more than seven business days after it became available.

Bill history
Introduced on May 11, 2010, and referred to both the Committee on Rules and the Committee on the Budget.