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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9992 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9992

  To amend title 41, United States Code, to identify individuals who 
  commit certain Federal felonies implicating Federal programs as an 
excluded source on the System for Award Management Exclusions list, and 
                          for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2024

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
               Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend title 41, United States Code, to identify individuals who 
  commit certain Federal felonies implicating Federal programs as an 
excluded source on the System for Award Management Exclusions list, 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 Program Integrity and Fraud 
Prevention Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF FELONY FRAUD CONVICTS TO PROTECT FEDERAL FUNDS.

    (a) Procurement Integrity.--Chapter 47 of title 41, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 4715. Protecting Federal funds from individuals convicted of 
              certain Federal felonies
    ``(a) Prohibition.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection (b), an 
        individual who is convicted of a covered felony arising out of 
        any agency contract, grant, cooperative agreement, loan, or 
        other financial assistance shall be identified as an excluded 
        source on the System for Award Management Exclusions list 
        described in part 9 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, 
        and part 180 of title 2 of such Code, or successor regulations.
            ``(2) Notification of conviction.--For each individual 
        convicted of a covered felony, the Attorney General shall 
        notify the Administrator of General Services in a timely manner 
        of such conviction and the Administrator shall promptly enter 
        the 3-year prohibition for such person into the System for 
        Award Management, or any successor system.
    ``(b) Waiver.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the agency head may 
exempt an individual described in subsection (a)(1) from the 
prohibition under such subsection for a case in which the agency head 
determines in writing that the exemption is warranted. The agency head 
shall transmit a copy of each such written exemption to Congress 
immediately after making such determination.
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Agency.--The term `agency' means an Executive 
        department (as defined under section 101 of title 5), a 
        military department (as defined under section 102 of title 5), 
        a Government corporation (as defined under section 103 of title 
        5), and an independent establishment (as defined under section 
        104(1) of title 5).
            ``(2) Convicted.--The term `convicted' means--
                    ``(A) a judgment of conviction has been entered 
                against the individual by a Federal court, regardless 
                of whether there is an appeal pending;
                    ``(B) there has been a finding of guilt against the 
                individual by a Federal court;
                    ``(C) a plea of guilty or nolo contendere by the 
                individual has been accepted by a Federal court; or
                    ``(D) the individual has entered into a first 
                offender, deferred adjudication, deferred prosecution, 
                or other arrangement or program in which judgment or 
                conviction has been withheld.
            ``(3) Covered felony.--The term `covered felony' means a 
        felony described under section 286, 287, 371, 641, 666, 1001, 
        1014, 1017, 1028, 1028A, 1030, 1031, 1040(a)(2), 1341, 1343, 
        1344, 1345, 1349, 1956, and 1957 of title 18 and section 16 of 
        the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 645).
    ``(d) Rules of Construction.--
            ``(1) Federal interests.--Nothing in this section may be 
        construed to prohibit an agency from seeking or taking any 
        other available criminal, civil, or administrative action to 
        protect Federal Government interests, including the proposal or 
        implementation of suspension or debarment actions pursuant to 
        subpart 9.4 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, and part 
        180 of title 2 of such Code.
            ``(2) Exclusion.--Nothing in subsection (b) may be 
        construed to affect any other statutory or regulatory waiver 
        authority related to an exclusion.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 47 of 
title 41, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``4715. Protecting Federal funds from individuals convicted of certain 
                            Federal felonies.''.

SEC. 3. GUIDANCE.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Attorney General, in consultation with the Administrator of General 
Services, shall issue guidance for the implementation of, and 
compliance with, the requirements of section 4715 of title 41, United 
States Code, as added by section 2.
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