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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. CON-
NOLLY, 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. 
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 ‘‘Federal Improper Pay-
ments Coordination Act of 2015’’. 
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States, when the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget determines that the Do 
Not Pay Initiative is appropriately established 
for the judicial branch or the legislative branch, 
as applicable.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 
the following: 
‘‘(D) may include States and their quasi- 
government entities, and the judicial and legis-
lative branches of the United States (as defined 
in paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, of sec-
tion 202(e) of title 18, United States Code) as 
users of the system in accordance with sub-
section (b)(3).’’. 
SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE SHARING AND USE OF DATA BY 
GOVERNMENT 
AGENCIES 
TO 
CURB 
IM-
PROPER PAYMENTS. 
The Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 note) is 
amended— 
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(1) in section 5(a)(2), by striking subparagraph 
(A) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(A) The death records maintained by the 
Commissioner of Social Security.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 7. IMPROVING THE USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT 
AGENCIES FOR CURBING IMPROPER PAY-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) PROMPT REPORTING OF DEATH INFORMATION 
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE DEPARTMENT 
OF DEFENSE.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
the enactment of this section, the Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of Defense shall establish a procedure under 
which each Secretary shall, promptly and on a regular 
basis, submit information relating to the deaths of individ-
uals to each agency for which the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget determines receiving and 
using such information would be relevant and necessary. 
‘‘(b) GUIDANCE TO AGENCIES REGARDING DATA AC-
CESS AND USE FOR IMPROPER PAYMENTS PURPOSES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of the enactment of this section, and 
in consultation with the Council of the Inspectors 
General on Integrity and Efficiency, the heads of 
other relevant Federal, State, and local agencies, 
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and Indian tribes and tribal organizations, the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall issue guidance regarding implementation of the 
Do Not Pay Initiative under section 5 to— 
‘‘(A) the Department of the Treasury; and 
‘‘(B) each agency or component of an 
agency— 
‘‘(i) that operates or maintains a 
database of information described in sec-
tion 5(a)(2); or 
‘‘(ii) for which the Director deter-
mines improved data matching would be 
relevant, necessary, or beneficial. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The guidance issued 
under paragraph (1) shall— 
‘‘(A) address the implementation of sub-
section (a); and 
‘‘(B) include the establishment of deadlines 
for access to and use of the databases described 
in section 5(a)(2) under the Do Not Pay Initia-
tive.’’. 
SEC. 4. DATA ANALYTICS. 
Section 5 of the Improper Payments Elimination and 
Recovery Improvement Act of 2012 (31 U.S.C. 3321 
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note), as amended by section 2, is further amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) REPORT ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS DATA ANAL-
YSIS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of the Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act 
of 2015, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to 
Congress a report that includes a description of— 
‘‘(1) data analytics performed as part of the Do 
Not Pay Initiative for the purpose of detecting, pre-
venting, and recovering improper payments through 
pre-award, post-award, pre-payment, and post-pay-
ment analysis, which shall include a description of 
any analysis or investigations incorporating— 
‘‘(A) review and data matching of pay-
ments and beneficiary enrollment lists of State 
programs carried out using Federal funds for 
the purposes of identifying eligibility duplica-
tion, residency ineligibility, duplicate payments, 
or other potential improper payment issues; 
‘‘(B) review of multiple agencies and pro-
grams for which comparison of data could show 
payment duplication; and 
‘‘(C) review of other information the Sec-
retary of the Treasury determines could prove 
effective for identifying, preventing, or recov-
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ering improper payments, which may include in-
vestigation or review of information from mul-
tiple agencies or programs; 
‘‘(2) the metrics used in determining whether 
the analytic and investigatory efforts have reduced, 
or contributed to the reduction of, improper pay-
ments or improper awards; and 
‘‘(3) the target dates for implementing the data 
analytics operations performed as part of the Do 
Not Pay Initiative.’’. 
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