H.R. 4311

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4311 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4311

To amend chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code, to require 
adequate information regarding payments of Federal funds.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 10, 2025

Mr. Bean of Florida (for himself, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mr. 
Carter of Georgia, Mr. Moore of North Carolina, and Mrs. Hinson) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on 
Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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

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A BILL

To amend chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code, to require 
adequate information regarding payments of Federal funds.

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 ``Delivering On Government Efficiency 
in Spending Act''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY REPORTING AND VERIFICATION OF PAYMENT INFORMATION.

(a) In General.--Subchapter II of chapter 33 of title 31, United 
States Code is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 3337. Mandatory reporting and verification of payment 
information
``(a) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Agency.--The term `agency' means--
``(A) an executive agency;
``(B) an independent regulatory agency, as defined 
in section 3502 of title 44; or
``(C) an entity that--
``(i)(I) is the Congress;
``(II) is a court of the United States;
``(III) is a government of a territory or 
possession of the United States; or
``(IV) is the District of Columbia; and
``(ii) uses a Treasury disbursement system.
``(2) Budget justification materials.--The term `budget 
justification materials' has the meaning given that term in 
section 3(b)(2)(A) of the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note).
``(3) Secretary.--The term `Secretary' means the Secretary 
of the Treasury.
``(4) Sensitive operations.--The term `sensitive 
operations'--
``(A) means an operation of an agency related to a 
domestic law enforcement activity or the national 
security of the United States with respect to which the 
disclosure of information in accordance with subsection 
(b) would--
``(i) reasonably lead to death or serious 
bodily injury; or
``(ii) result in the disclosure of 
information--
``(I) the disclosure of which is 
prohibited by law;
``(II) that is classified; or
``(III) that is exempt from 
disclosure under section 552(b) of 
title 5; and
``(B) includes an operation described in 
subparagraph (A) that is carried out in tandem or 
coordination with, or in support of, a State, local, or 
Tribal government.
``(5) Treasury disbursement system.--The term `Treasury 
disbursement system' means any system operated by the Secretary 
for the purpose of disbursing public money.
``(b) Mandatory Reporting of Payment Information.--Subject to 
subsection (e), for each payment authorized by the head of an agency 
that is submitted to a Treasury disbursement system for disbursement by 
the Secretary, the head of the agency shall provide to the Secretary, 
in such format as the Secretary requires, for inclusion in the Treasury 
disbursement system--
``(1) a brief description of the purpose for which the 
payment is being made;
``(2) the appropriations account (Treasury Account Symbol, 
or any successor thereto) from which the payment is to be 
drawn; and
``(3) the type of activity being reported (Business Event 
Type Code, or any successor thereto).
``(c) Periodic Updates.--Not less frequently than once each fiscal 
year--
``(1) for each payment--
``(A) the certifying official shall evaluate 
whether the information collected under subsection (b) 
is accurate and complete; and
``(B) the head of each certifying agency shall 
provide written confirmation to the disbursing official 
attesting to the accuracy of such information; and
``(2) the disbursing official shall consult with the 
certifying official to improve the management of the Treasury 
disbursement system.
``(d) Public Reporting.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
which each payment that is subject to this subchapter is certified, the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall direct the 
Secretary, or, if the payment is disbursed by an accountable official 
who is not in a position in the Department of the Treasury, the head of 
the agency with jurisdiction over the accountable official, to make 
available on the public website operated under the Federal Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) the 
data required to be provided under subsection (b) with respect to the 
payment.
``(e) Exemptions.--Subsections (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply to 
a payment for which the head of the agency authorizing the payment 
verifies to the Secretary that the compliance with such subsections 
would adversely impact a sensitive operation for which the payment is 
authorized.
``(f) Report.--The head of each agency shall include in a 
controlled unclassified informational annex, or in a classified annex 
(if the applicable information has been properly classified by an 
officer or employee of the agency with original classification 
authority), as warranted, of the first budget justification materials 
of the agency submitted after the date of enactment of this section, 
and all budget justification materials submitted thereafter, a report 
that includes, for each payment that was made during the most recent 
prior fiscal year and for which the reporting of information was 
exempted under subsection (e), aggregated information which would have 
been provided to the Secretary under subsection (b), but for the 
exemption.''.
(b) Implementation.--The Secretary of the Treasury may issue 
regulations or guidance to implement the amendments made by this Act.
(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section, or an amendment 
made by this section, shall be construed to impose a legal liability on 
a disbursing official resulting from any action taken pursuant to this 
section, or an amendment made by this section.
(d) Conforming Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 33 of 
title 31, United States Code is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 3336 the following:

``3337. Mandatory reporting and verification of payment information.''.

SEC. 3. DATA ACCESS FOR PURPOSES OF PROGRAM INTEGRITY.

(a) Access to the National Directory of New Hires.--Section 453(j) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653(j)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
``(12) Information to assist in the prevention of improper 
payments.--
``(A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall have access to the information in the National 
Directory of New Hires for the purpose of identifying, 
preventing, and recovering improper payments.
``(B) Redisclosure.--For the purpose of 
identifying, preventing, and recovering improper 
payments, the Secretary of the Treasury may redisclose 
information in the National Directory of New Hires to--
``(i) agents and contractors of the 
Secretary of the Treasury;
``(ii) Federal and non-Federal agencies 
authorized to receive information in the 
National Directory of New Hires directly from 
the Secretary; and
``(iii) such additional persons and 
entities as agreed to by the Secretary and the 
Secretary of the Treasury.''.
(b) Bank Account Verification and Precertification.--Section 3325 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
striking ``the executive branch'' and inserting ``an 
agency''; and
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``executive'' 
each place it appears;
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ``executive'' each place 
it appears; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(e)(1) Prior to certifying a voucher to a disbursing official, 
the head of an agency or an officer or employee of an agency described 
in subparagraph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1), as applicable, shall 
take necessary actions to accurately disburse payments to the 
recipients of those payments, including by--
``(A) verifying the accuracy of the bank account 
information to which a payment is to be disbursed; and
``(B) comparing the bank account information of the 
proposed recipient to other payment records available to the 
agency.
``(2) The Secretary of the Treasury and, with the approval of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the head of the agency having jurisdiction 
over a disbursing official, may issue guidance to carry out this 
subsection.
``(f) In this section, the term `agency' has the meaning given the 
term in section 3337 of this title.''.
(c) Access to Information Covered by FCRA.--
(1) Definitions.--Section 603(k)(1) of the Fair Credit 
Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(k)(1)) is amended--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the 
end;
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ``; and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(C) does not include--
``(i) any change to a Federal disbursement, 
including the pre-certification termination of 
such disbursement, that is--
``(I) based on a consumer report; 
and
``(II) made to improve the accuracy 
of the disbursement; or
``(ii) any action taken by an authorized 
user of the Working System of the Do Not Pay 
Initiative authorized by section 3354 of title 
31, United States Code, in connection with the 
disbursement of a payment, as defined in 
section 3351 of that title, that is based on a 
consumer report.''.
(2) Permissible uses of consumer reports.--Section 604(a) 
of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681b(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``(7) To the Secretary of the Treasury for purposes of 
assisting Federal and non-Federal entities identify, prevent, 
and recover improper payments, including redisclosing 
information in a consumer report to--
``(A) agents and contractors of the Department of 
the Treasury; and
``(B) Federal and non-Federal entities authorized 
to receive such information directly from the 
Secretary.''.
(d) Privacy-Preserving Validation of Select Tax Information.--
(1) In general.--Section 6103(i) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
``(9) Do not pay working system.--
``(A) In general.--In response to an inquiry by the 
Secretary with respect to a specific individual, the 
Commissioner shall provide the Secretary with any 
return information described in subparagraph (B) with 
respect to such individual for the applicable period, 
in a manner which preserves the confidentiality of such 
information, for the purposes of enhancing the Do Not 
Pay working system described in section 3354(c) of 
title 31, United States Code, which may include 
disclosing such information--
``(i) to agents and contractors of the 
Department of Treasury who are authorized to 
access the Do Not Pay working system, and
``(ii) other Federal agencies and State 
agencies that manage federally funded State-
administered programs (including agents and 
contractors of such agencies) who are 
authorized to access the Do Not Pay working 
system,
for purposes of using the Do Not Pay working system to 
identify, prevent, and recover improper payments.
``(B) Return information.--The return information 
described in this subparagraph is the following:
``(i) Taxpayer identification number.
``(ii) Filing status.
``(iii) Adjusted gross income.
``(iv) Income or loss reported on Schedule 
C of Form 1040 (or successor forms).
``(v) Filing year.
``(vi) Bank account and routing 
information.
``(vii) Any reported identity theft related 
to the taxpayer identification number.
``(viii) Whether a tax return was not filed 
for any taxable year.
``(C) Applicable period.--For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term `applicable period' means, with 
respect to any individual, the period--
``(i) consisting of the number of taxable 
years specified by the Secretary in the inquiry 
made under subparagraph (A) (but not less than 
3 taxable years), and
``(ii) ending with the most recently 
completed taxable year for which the 
information described in such subparagraph is 
available.''.
(2) Effective date.--The amendment made by this section 
shall apply to disclosures made after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
(e) Access to Social Security Information.--Title II of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section:

``SEC. 235. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION FOR DO NOT PAY SYSTEM.

``(a) In General.--For the purposes described in subsection (b), 
the Commissioner of Social Security shall, upon request of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, enter into an agreement with the Department 
of the Treasury to regularly provide personally identifiable 
information held by the Social Security Administration, which shall, 
with respect to any individual, include, at a minimum, the name, date 
of birth, and Social Security number of such individual.
``(b) Purposes.--Information provided under subsection (a) shall be 
used solely for purposes of enhancing the Do Not Pay working system 
described in section 3354(c) of title 31, United States Code, with 
respect to identifying, preventing, and recovering improper payments, 
including fraudulent payments.''.
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