119th Congress Government Operations and Politics
H.R. 8463: Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
Passed House
- Introduced (completed)
- Passed House (completed)
- Passed Senate (not reached)
- To the President (not reached)
- Became law (not reached)
Summary
This bill expands efforts to identify, prevent, and recover improper payments of federal funds (e.g., overpayments, underpayments, payments to ineligible recipients).
Specifically, the Department of the Treasury must establish certain requirements that agencies must meet before directing Treasury to make a payment of federal funds. These pre-payment requirements must include verification of payee information, payment details, and fund availability. Further, agencies must, to the extent practicable, verify the accuracy of payee bank account information before directing Treasury to make a payment.
The bill also expands the Do Not Pay system, which provides agencies with access to centralized data for the purpose of verifying payee eligibility, and provides statutory authority for Treasury’s role as administrator of the system. The bill requires specified data assets to be added to the system and authorizes Treasury to (1) designate additional data assets for inclusion, and (2) access certain taxpayer and Social Security information for the system. The bill specifies that information obtained through the system may only be used to prevent and recover improper payments and establishes penalties for the unlawful disclosure of such information.
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The bill explicitly requires executive agencies and state and local governments administering federally funded programs to screen payees against all appropriate Do Not Pay data assets and risk tools before making an award or directing a payment.
Finally, the bill establishes post-award reporting requirements for certain first-time fund recipients under federal programs for awards of $50,000 or more.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Jodey Arrington R-TXOriginal
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Robert Garcia D-CA
Who scored on this bill
- 1James Comer SponsorIntroduced, marked up, drew cross-party cosponsors, reported, discharged, passed House6 events+92
- 2Jodey ArringtonCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
- 2Ken CalvertCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
- 2Robert GarciaCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
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History
- Passed the House by voice vote.
- Introduced in the House by James Comer.
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- Received in the Senate.
- Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-688, Part I.
- Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 600.
- Mr. Gill (TX) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3919-3923)
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 8463.
- Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3919-3922)
- On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3919-3922)
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 35 - 1.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.