A bill to provide for the collection of death information from States for purposes of the Do Not Pay Initiative, and for other purposes. 2020-07-27 Introduced in Senate This bill requires the incorporation of information from death certificates that is voluntarily provided by states or political subdivisions into a system used by federal agencies to verify the eligibility of an individual to receive certain federal payments.

The Department of the Treasury may pay states and jurisdictions for the reasonable costs of transcribing and transmitting this information.

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