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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. 

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 

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 enactment of this section, the Secretary of State and the 

13 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 enactment of this section, and in 

23 consultation with the Council of Inspectors General 

24 on Integrity and Efficiency, the heads of other rel25 evant Federal, State, and local agencies, and Indian 


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1 tribes and tribal organizations, the Director of the 

2 Office of Management and Budget shall issue guid3 ance regarding implementation of the Do Not Pay 

4 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 

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


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1 ‘‘(h) REPORT ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS DATA ANAL2 YSIS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enact3 ment of the Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act 

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

5 Congress a report which shall include a description of— 

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

7 Not Pay Initiative for the purpose of detecting, pre8 venting, and recovering improper payments through 

9 pre-award, post-award pre-payment, and post-pay10 ment analysis, which shall include a description of 

11 any analysis or investigations incorporating— 

12 ‘‘(A) review and data matching of pay13 ments and beneficiary enrollment lists of State 

14 programs carried out using Federal funds for 

15 the purposes of identifying eligibility duplica16 tion, residency ineligibility, duplicate payments, 

17 or other potential improper payment issues; 

18 ‘‘(B) review of multiple Federal agencies 

19 and programs for which comparison of data 

20 could show payment duplication; and 

21 ‘‘(C) review of other information the Sec22 retary of the Treasury determines could prove 

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1 vestigation or review of information from mul2 tiple Federal agencies or programs; 

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

4 the analytic and investigatory efforts have reduced, 

5 or contributed to the reduction of, improper pay6 ments or improper awards; and 

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

8 analytics operations performed as part of the Do 

9 Not Pay Initiative.’’. 

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