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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2320 

To provide access to and use of information by Federal agencies in order 

to reduce improper payments, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 14, 2015 

Mr. MULVANEY (for himself, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. CONNOLLY, and Mr. WESTMORELAND) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

A BILL 

To provide access to and use of information by Federal 

agencies in order to reduce improper payments, and for 

other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Improper Pay5 ments Coordination Act of 2015’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF THE DO NOT PAY INITIATIVE TO 

2 THE JUDICIAL AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES 

3 AND STATES. 

4 Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and 

5 Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) 

6 is amended— 

7 (1) in subsection (b)(3)— 

8 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 

9 ‘‘BY AGENCIES’’; and 

10 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

11 ‘‘States and any contractor, subcontractor, or 

12 agent of a State, and the judicial and legislative 

13 branches of the United States (as defined in 

14 paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, of section 

15 202(e) of title 18, United States Code), shall 

16 have access to, and use of, the Do Not Pay Ini17 tiative to verify payment or award eligibility for 

18 payments (as defined in section (2)(g)(3) of the 

19 Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, 

20 31 U.S.C. 3321 note) when, with respect to a 

21 State, the Director of the Office of Manage22 ment and Budget determines that the Do Not 

23 Pay Initiative is appropriately established for 

24 that State and any contractor, subcontractor, or 

25 agent of the State, and, with respect to the ju26 dicial and legislative branches of the United 


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1 States, when the Director of the Office of Man2 agement and Budget determines that the Do 

3 Not Pay Initiative is appropriately established 

4 for the judicial branch or the legislative branch, 

5 as applicable.’’; and 

6 (2) in subsection (d)(2)— 

7 (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

8 ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 

9 (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 

10 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

11 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 

12 the following: 

13 ‘‘(D) may include States and their quasi14 government entities, and the judicial and legis15 lative branches of the United States (as defined 

16 in paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, of sec17 tion 202(e) of title 18, United States Code) as 

18 users of the system in accordance with sub19 section (b)(3).’’. 

20 SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE SHARING AND USE OF DATA BY 

21 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO CURB IM22 PROPER PAYMENTS. 

23 The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 

24 Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) is 

25 amended— 


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1 (1) in section 5(a)(2), by striking subparagraph 

2 (A) and inserting the following: 

3 ‘‘(A) The death records maintained by the 

4 Commissioner of Social Security.’’; and 

5 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘SEC. 7. IMPROVING THE USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT 

7 AGENCIES FOR CURBING IMPROPER PAY8 MENTS. 

9 ‘‘(a) PROMPT REPORTING OF DEATH INFORMATION

10 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE DEPARTMENT

11 OF DEFENSE.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 

12 the enactment of this section, the Secretary of State and 

13 the Secretary of Defense shall establish a procedure under 

14 which each Secretary shall, promptly and on a regular 

15 basis, submit information relating to the deaths of individ16 uals to each agency for which the Director of the Office 

17 of Management and Budget determines receiving and 

18 using such information would be relevant and necessary. 

19 ‘‘(b) GUIDANCE TO AGENCIES REGARDING DATA AC20 CESS AND USE FOR IMPROPER PAYMENTS PURPOSES.— 

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months 

22 after the date of the enactment of this section, and 

23 in consultation with the Council of the Inspectors 

24 General on Integrity and Efficiency, the heads of 

25 other relevant Federal, State, and local agencies, 


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1 and Indian tribes and tribal organizations, the Di2 rector of the Office of Management and Budget 

3 shall issue guidance regarding implementation of the 

4 Do Not Pay Initiative under section 5 to— 

5 ‘‘(A) the Department of the Treasury; and 

6 ‘‘(B) each agency or component of an 

7 agency— 

8 ‘‘(i) that operates or maintains a 

9 database of information described in sec10 tion 5(a)(2); or 

11 ‘‘(ii) for which the Director deter12 mines improved data matching would be 

13 relevant, necessary, or beneficial. 

14 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The guidance issued 

15 under paragraph (1) shall— 

16 ‘‘(A) address the implementation of sub17 section (a); and 

18 ‘‘(B) include the establishment of deadlines 

19 for access to and use of the databases described 

20 in section 5(a)(2) under the Do Not Pay Initia21 tive.’’. 

22 SEC. 4. DATA ANALYTICS. 

23 Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and 

24 Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 


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1 note), as amended by section 2, is further amended by 

2 adding at the end the following: 

3 ‘‘(h) REPORT ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS DATA ANAL4 YSIS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact5 ment of the Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act 

6 of 2015, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to 

7 Congress a report that includes a description of— 

8 ‘‘(1) data analytics performed as part of the Do 

9 Not Pay Initiative for the purpose of detecting, pre10 venting, and recovering improper payments through 

11 pre-award, post-award, pre-payment, and post-pay12 ment analysis, which shall include a description of 

13 any analysis or investigations incorporating— 

14 ‘‘(A) review and data matching of pay15 ments and beneficiary enrollment lists of State 

16 programs carried out using Federal funds for 

17 the purposes of identifying eligibility duplica18 tion, residency ineligibility, duplicate payments, 

19 or other potential improper payment issues; 

20 ‘‘(B) review of multiple agencies and pro21 grams for which comparison of data could show 

22 payment duplication; and 

23 ‘‘(C) review of other information the Sec24 retary of the Treasury determines could prove 

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1 ering improper payments, which may include in2 vestigation or review of information from mul3 tiple agencies or programs; 

4 ‘‘(2) the metrics used in determining whether 

5 the analytic and investigatory efforts have reduced, 

6 or contributed to the reduction of, improper pay7 ments or improper awards; and 

8 ‘‘(3) the target dates for implementing the data 

9 analytics operations performed as part of the Do 

10 Not Pay Initiative.’’. 

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