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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3060
To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations to require
that the pay of Federal employees be paid by electronic funds transfer
or any other method determined by the Secretary to be in the interest
of economy or effectiveness, with sufficient safeguards over the control
of, and accounting for, public funds.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 14, 1993
Mr. DARDEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Government Operations
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regula-
tions to require that the pay of Federal employees be
paid by electronic funds transfer or any other method
determined by the Secretary to be in the interest of
economy or effectiveness, with sufficient safeguards over
the control of, and accounting for, public funds.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Electronic Funds
Transfer Federal Salary Act’’.
SEC. 2. SAFE, ECONOMICAL, EFFECTIVE PAYROLL ADMINIS-
TRATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3332 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by striking subsections (a), (b),
(c), (d), and (e) and inserting the following new sub-
sections:
‘‘(a) FINANCIAL
ORGANIZATION
DEFINED.—For
purposes of this section, the term ‘financial organization’
means a depository institution (as defined in section 3(c)
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act), a Federal or State
credit union (as defined in section 101 of the Federal
Credit Union Act), or a similar institution.
‘‘(b) ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFERS OF PAYMENTS
OF EMPLOYEE PAY.—
‘‘(1) SECRETARY
AUTHORIZED
TO
REQUIRE
ELECTRONIC
TRANSFERS.—Notwithstanding 
any
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Sec-
retary) may prescribe regulations requiring the pay
of any employee of any agency to be paid by elec-
tronic funds transfer or any other method deter-
mined by the Secretary to be in the interest of econ-
omy or effectiveness if the Secretary—
‘‘(A) determines that such requirement is
practicable; and
‘‘(B) establishes and maintains sufficient
safeguards over the control of, and accounting
for, public funds in connection with any such
transfer.
‘‘(2) DESIGNATION
OF
FINANCIAL
ORGANIZA-
TION RECIPIENT.—Any regulation prescribed under
paragraph (1) shall require any employee whose pay
is subject to such regulation to designate the finan-
cial organization to receive the payments of such
pay.
‘‘(3) REPORT
OF
DESIGNATION.—Any certifi-
cation which is made by the head of an agency with
respect to the payment of employee pay of an em-
ployee whose pay is subject to regulations prescribed
under paragraph (1) shall contain such information
about the financial organization designated by the
employee under paragraph (2) as the Secretary may
require.
‘‘(4) TRANSFER FEES PROHIBITED.—
‘‘(A) SECRETARY.—The Secretary may not
charge any financial organization any fee in
connection with any payment made in accord-
ance with this section.
‘‘(B) FINANCIAL
ORGANIZATION.—No fi-
nancial organization may charge any employee
ulations and requirements would risk disclosure
of intelligence sources and methods or com-
promise the security of foreign intelligence or
counterintelligence activities.
‘‘(c) EFFECT OF PAYMENT.—The acceptance by a fi-
nancial organization of a payment of an amount by the
United States in any manner authorized by the Secretary
pursuant to subsection (b) or (d) shall constitute full ac-
quittance of the United States for such amount.
‘‘(d) PAYMENT OF OTHER AMOUNTS BY ELECTRONIC
FUND TRANSFERS.—The payment by the United States
of any amount due any person for any purpose (other than
pay payable to an employee of an agency) may be made
in any manner authorized by the Secretary pursuant to
this section upon receipt by the Secretary of a written re-
quest of such person for payment in such manner.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
Section 3332 of title 31, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(1) by redesignating subsection (f) as sub-
section (e); and
(2) by striking ‘‘The’’ in the 1st sentence of
subsection (e) (as so redesignated) and inserting
‘‘Notwithstanding subsection (b)(1), the’’.
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