114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 614 

AN ACT 

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, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Improper Pay3 ments Coordination Act of 2015’’. 

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

5 THE JUDICIAL AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES 

6 AND STATES. 

7 Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and 

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

9 is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (b)(3)— 

11 (A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 

12 ‘‘BY AGENCIES’’; 

13 (B) by striking ‘‘For purposes’’ and insert14 ing the following: 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes’’; and 

16 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(B) OTHER ENTITIES.—States and any 

18 contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a State, 

19 and the judicial and legislative branches of the 

20 United States (as defined in paragraphs (2) 

21 and (3), respectively, of section 202(e) of title 

22 18, United States Code), shall have access to, 

23 and use of, the Do Not Pay Initiative for the 

24 purpose of verifying payment or award eligi25 bility for payments (as defined in section 

26 2(g)(3) of the Improper Payments Information 
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1 Act of 2002 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note)) when, with 

2 respect to a State, the Director of the Office of 

3 Management and Budget determines that the 

4 Do Not Pay Initiative is appropriately estab5 lished for that State and any contractor, sub6 contractor, or agent of the State, and, with re7 spect to the judicial and legislative branches of 

8 the United States, when the Director of the Of9 fice of Management and Budget determines 

10 that the Do Not Pay Initiative is appropriately 

11 established for the judicial branch or the legis12 lative branch, as applicable. 

13 ‘‘(C) CONSISTENCY WITH PRIVACY ACT OF

14 1974.—To ensure consistency with the principles 

15 of section 552a of title 5, United States Code 

16 (commonly known as the ‘Privacy Act of 

17 1974’), the Director of the Office of Manage18 ment and Budget may issue guidance that es19 tablishes privacy and other requirements that 

20 shall be incorporated into Do Not Pay Initiative 

21 access agreements with States, including any 

22 contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a State, 

23 and the judicial and legislative branches of the 

24 United States.’’; and 

25 (2) in subsection (d)(2)— 
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1 (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

2 ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 

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

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

5 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 

6 the following: 

7 ‘‘(D) may include States and their quasi8 government entities, and the judicial and legis9 lative branches of the United States (as defined 

10 in paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, of sec11 tion 202(e) of title 18, United States Code) as 

12 users of the system in accordance with sub13 section (b)(3).’’. 

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

15 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO CURB IM16 PROPER PAYMENTS. 

17 The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 

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

19 amended— 

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

21 (A) and inserting the following: 

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

23 Commissioner of Social Security.’’; and 

24 (2) by adding at the end the following: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 7. IMPROVING THE USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT 

2 AGENCIES FOR CURBING IMPROPER PAY3 MENTS. 

4 ‘‘(a) PROMPT REPORTING OF DEATH INFORMATION

5 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE DEPARTMENT

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

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

8 Secretary of Defense shall establish a procedure under 

9 which each Secretary shall, promptly and on a regular 

10 basis, submit information relating to the deaths of individ11 uals to each agency for which the Director of the Office 

12 of Management and Budget determines receiving and 

13 using such information would be relevant and necessary. 

14 ‘‘(b) GUIDANCE TO AGENCIES REGARDING DATA AC15 CESS AND USE FOR IMPROPER PAYMENTS PURPOSES.— 

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

17 the date of enactment of this section, the Director 

18 of the Office of Management and Budget, in con19 sultation with the Council of the Inspectors General 

20 on Integrity and Efficiency, the heads of other rel21 evant Federal, State, and local agencies, and Indian 

22 tribes and tribal organizations, as appropriate, shall 

23 issue guidance regarding implementation of the Do 

24 Not Pay Initiative under section 5 to— 

25 ‘‘(A) the Department of the Treasury; and 
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1 ‘‘(B) each agency or component of an 

2 agency— 

3 ‘‘(i) that operates or maintains a 

4 database of information described in sec5 tion 5(a)(2); or 

6 ‘‘(ii) for which the Director deter7 mines improved data matching would be 

8 relevant, necessary, or beneficial. 

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

10 under paragraph (1) shall— 

11 ‘‘(A) address the implementation of sub12 section (a); and 

13 ‘‘(B) include the establishment of deadlines 

14 for access to and use of the databases described 

15 in section 5(a)(2) under the Do Not Pay Initia16 tive.’’. 

17 SEC. 4. DATA ANALYTICS. 

18 Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and 

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

20 note), is amended by adding at the end the following: 

21 ‘‘(h) REPORT ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS DATA ANAL22 YSIS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enact23 ment of the Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act 

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

25 Congress a report which shall include a description of— 
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1 ‘‘(1) data analytics performed as part of the Do 

2 Not Pay Business Center operated by the Depart3 ment of the Treasury for the purpose of detecting, 

4 preventing, and recovering improper payments 

5 through preaward, postaward prepayment, and 

6 postpayment analysis, which shall include a descrip7 tion of any analysis or investigations incorporating— 

8 ‘‘(A) review and data matching of pay9 ments and beneficiary enrollment lists of State 

10 programs carried out using Federal funds for 

11 the purposes of identifying eligibility duplica12 tion, residency ineligibility, duplicate payments, 

13 or other potential improper payment issues; 

14 ‘‘(B) review of multiple Federal agencies 

15 and programs for which comparison of data 

16 could show payment duplication; and 

17 ‘‘(C) review of other information the Sec18 retary of the Treasury determines could prove 

19 effective for identifying, preventing, or recov20 ering improper payments, which may include in21 vestigation or review of information from mul22 tiple Federal agencies or programs; 

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

24 the analytic and investigatory efforts have reduced, 
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1 or contributed to the reduction of, improper pay2 ments or improper awards; and 

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

4 analytics operations performed as part of the Do 

5 Not Pay Business Center’’. 

Passed the Senate July 28, 2015. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 614 

AN ACT 

To provide access to and use of information by 

payments, and for other purposes. Federal agencies in order to reduce improper