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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4311 
To amend chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code, to require adequate 
information regarding payments of Federal funds. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2025 
Mr. BEAN of Florida (for himself, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. MOORE of Utah, Mr. 
CARTER of Georgia, Mr. MOORE of North Carolina, and Mrs. HINSON) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees 
on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code, to 
require adequate information regarding payments of Fed-
eral 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 ‘‘Delivering On Govern-
ment Efficiency in Spending Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. MANDATORY REPORTING AND VERIFICATION OF 
PAYMENT INFORMATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter II of chapter 33 of 
title 31, United States Code is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘§ 3337. Mandatory reporting and verification of pay-
ment information 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘agency’ means— 
‘‘(A) an executive agency; 
‘‘(B) an independent regulatory agency, as 
defined in section 3502 of title 44; or 
‘‘(C) an entity that— 
‘‘(i)(I) is the Congress; 
‘‘(II) is a court of the United States; 
‘‘(III) is a government of a territory 
or possession of the United States; or 
‘‘(IV) is the District of Columbia; and 
‘‘(ii) uses a Treasury disbursement 
system. 
‘‘(2) BUDGET
JUSTIFICATION
MATERIALS.— 
The term ‘budget justification materials’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 3(b)(2)(A) of the 
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 
Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note). 
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‘‘(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ means 
the Secretary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(4) SENSITIVE OPERATIONS.—The term ‘sen-
sitive operations’— 
‘‘(A) means an operation of an agency re-
lated to a domestic law enforcement activity or 
the national security of the United States with 
respect to which the disclosure of information 
in accordance with subsection (b) would— 
‘‘(i) reasonably lead to death or seri-
ous bodily injury; or 
‘‘(ii) result in the disclosure of infor-
mation— 
‘‘(I) the disclosure of which is 
prohibited by law; 
‘‘(II) that is classified; or 
‘‘(III) that is exempt from disclo-
sure under section 552(b) of title 5; 
and 
‘‘(B) includes an operation described in 
subparagraph (A) that is carried out in tandem 
or coordination with, or in support of, a State, 
local, or Tribal government. 
‘‘(5) TREASURY DISBURSEMENT SYSTEM.—The 
term ‘Treasury disbursement system’ means any 
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bursing official attesting to the accuracy of 
such information; and 
‘‘(2) the disbursing official shall consult with 
the certifying official to improve the management of 
the Treasury disbursement system. 
‘‘(d) PUBLIC REPORTING.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date on which each payment that is subject to 
this subchapter is certified, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall direct the Secretary, or, 
if the payment is disbursed by an accountable official who 
is not in a position in the Department of the Treasury, 
the head of the agency with jurisdiction over the account-
able official, to make available on the public website oper-
ated under the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note) the data 
required to be provided under subsection (b) with respect 
to the payment. 
‘‘(e) EXEMPTIONS.—Subsections (b), (c), and (d) 
shall not apply to a payment for which the head of the 
agency authorizing the payment verifies to the Secretary 
that the compliance with such subsections would adversely 
impact a sensitive operation for which the payment is au-
thorized. 
‘‘(f) REPORT.—The head of each agency shall include 
in a controlled unclassified informational annex, or in a 
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classified annex (if the applicable information has been 
properly classified by an officer or employee of the agency 
with original classification authority), as warranted, of the 
first budget justification materials of the agency sub-
mitted after the date of enactment of this section, and all 
budget justification materials submitted thereafter, a re-
port that includes, for each payment that was made during 
the most recent prior fiscal year and for which the report-
ing of information was exempted under subsection (e), ag-
gregated information which would have been provided to 
the Secretary under subsection (b), but for the exemp-
tion.’’. 
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury may issue regulations or guidance to implement the 
amendments made by this Act. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion, or an amendment made by this section, shall be con-
strued to impose a legal liability on a disbursing official 
resulting from any action taken pursuant to this section, 
or an amendment made by this section. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 33 of title 31, United States Code is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
3336 the following: 
‘‘3337. Mandatory reporting and verification of payment information.’’. 
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SEC. 3. DATA ACCESS FOR PURPOSES OF PROGRAM INTEG-
RITY. 
(a) ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF NEW 
HIRES.—Section 453(j) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 653(j)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(12) INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN THE PRE-
VENTION OF IMPROPER PAYMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall have access to the information in 
the National Directory of New Hires for the 
purpose of identifying, preventing, and recov-
ering improper payments. 
‘‘(B) REDISCLOSURE.—For the purpose of 
identifying, preventing, and recovering improper 
payments, the Secretary of the Treasury may 
redisclose information in the National Directory 
of New Hires to— 
‘‘(i) agents and contractors of the 
Secretary of the Treasury; 
‘‘(ii) Federal and non-Federal agen-
cies authorized to receive information in 
the National Directory of New Hires di-
rectly from the Secretary; and 
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‘‘(iii) such additional persons and en-
tities as agreed to by the Secretary and the 
Secretary of the Treasury.’’. 
(b) 
BANK
ACCOUNT
VERIFICATION
AND 
PRECERTIFICATION.—Section 3325 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘the executive branch’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘an agency’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘execu-
tive’’ each place it appears; 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘executive’’ 
each place it appears; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e)(1) Prior to certifying a voucher to a disbursing 
official, the head of an agency or an officer or employee 
of an agency described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of sub-
section (a)(1), as applicable, shall take necessary actions 
to accurately disburse payments to the recipients of those 
payments, including by— 
‘‘(A) verifying the accuracy of the bank account 
information to which a payment is to be disbursed; 
and 
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‘‘(B) comparing the bank account information 
of the proposed recipient to other payment records 
available to the agency. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary of the Treasury and, with the ap-
proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the head of the 
agency having jurisdiction over a disbursing official, may 
issue guidance to carry out this subsection. 
‘‘(f) In this section, the term ‘agency’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 3337 of this title.’’. 
(c) ACCESS TO INFORMATION COVERED BY FCRA.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS.—Section 603(k)(1) of the 
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(k)(1)) 
is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) does not include— 
‘‘(i) any change to a Federal disburse-
ment, including the pre-certification termi-
nation of such disbursement, that is— 
‘‘(I) based on a consumer report; 
and 
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