[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 614 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 614

  To provide access to and use of information by Federal agencies in 
       order to reduce improper payments, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2015

Mr. Carper (for himself and Mr. Johnson) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide access to and use of information by Federal agencies in 
       order to reduce improper payments, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Improper Payments 
Coordination Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF THE DO NOT PAY INITIATIVE TO THE JUDICIAL AND 
              LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES AND STATES.

    Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(3)--
                    (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``by 
                agencies''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following: ``States 
                and any contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a State, 
                and the judicial and legislative branches of the United 
                States (as defined in paragraphs (2) and (3), 
                respectively, of section 202(e) of title 18, United 
                States Code), shall have access to, and use of, the Do 
                Not Pay Initiative to verify payment or award 
                eligibility for payments (as defined in section 
                (2)(g)(3) of the Improper Payments Information Act of 
                2002, 31 U.S.C. 3321 note) when, with respect to a 
                State, the Director of the Office of Management and 
                Budget determines that the Do Not Pay Initiative is 
                appropriately established for that State and any 
                contractor, subcontractor, or agent of the State, and, 
                with respect to the judicial and legislative branches 
                of the United States, when the Director of the Office 
                of Management and Budget determines that the Do Not Pay 
                Initiative is appropriately established for the 
                judicial branch or the legislative branch, as 
                applicable.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
                following:
                    ``(D) may include States and their quasi-government 
                entities, and the judicial and legislative branches of 
                the United States (as defined in paragraphs (2) and 
                (3), respectively, of section 202(e) of title 18, 
                United States Code) as users of the system in 
                accordance with subsection (b)(3).''.

SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE SHARING AND USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO 
              CURB IMPROPER PAYMENTS.

    The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 
2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) is amended--
            (1) in section 5(a)(2), by striking subparagraph (A) and 
        inserting the following:
                    ``(A) The death records maintained by the 
                Commissioner of Social Security.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 7. IMPROVING THE USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR CURBING 
              IMPROPER PAYMENTS.

    ``(a) Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the Department of 
State and the Department of Defense.--Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of State and the 
Secretary of Defense shall establish a procedure under which each 
Secretary shall, promptly and on a regular basis, submit information 
relating to the deaths of individuals to each agency for which the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines receiving 
and using such information would be relevant and necessary.
    ``(b) Guidance to Agencies Regarding Data Access and Use for 
Improper Payments Purposes.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 6 months after the date 
        of enactment of this section, and in consultation with the 
        Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the 
        heads of other relevant Federal, State, and local agencies, and 
        Indian tribes and tribal organizations, the Director of the 
        Office of Management and Budget shall issue guidance regarding 
        implementation of the Do Not Pay Initiative under section 5 
        to--
                    ``(A) the Department of the Treasury; and
                    ``(B) each agency or component of an agency--
                            ``(i) that operates or maintains a database 
                        of information described in section 5(a)(2); or
                            ``(ii) for which the Director determines 
                        improved data matching would be relevant, 
                        necessary, or beneficial.
            ``(2) Requirements.--The guidance issued under paragraph 
        (1) shall--
                    ``(A) address the implementation of subsection (a); 
                and
                    ``(B) include the establishment of deadlines for 
                access to and use of the databases described in section 
                5(a)(2) under the Do Not Pay Initiative.''.

SEC. 4. DATA ANALYTICS.

    Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note), is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(h) Report on Improper Payments Data Analysis.--Not later than 
180 days after the date of enactment of the Federal Improper Payments 
Coordination Act of 2015, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to 
Congress a report which shall include a description of--
            ``(1) data analytics performed as part of the Do Not Pay 
        Initiative for the purpose of detecting, preventing, and 
        recovering improper payments through pre-award, post-award pre-
        payment, and post-payment analysis, which shall include a 
        description of any analysis or investigations incorporating--
                    ``(A) review and data matching of payments and 
                beneficiary enrollment lists of State programs carried 
                out using Federal funds for the purposes of identifying 
                eligibility duplication, residency ineligibility, 
                duplicate payments, or other potential improper payment 
                issues;
                    ``(B) review of multiple Federal agencies and 
                programs for which comparison of data could show 
                payment duplication; and
                    ``(C) review of other information the Secretary of 
                the Treasury determines could prove effective for 
                identifying, preventing, or recovering improper 
                payments, which may include investigation or review of 
                information from multiple Federal agencies or programs;
            ``(2) the metrics used in determining whether the analytic 
        and investigatory efforts have reduced, or contributed to the 
        reduction of, improper payments or improper awards; and
            ``(3) the target dates for implementing the data analytics 
        operations performed as part of the Do Not Pay Initiative.''.
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