porting agency as those terms are defined in 
section 603 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. 
The obtaining of a consumer report under this 
subsection is deemed to be a circumstance or 
purpose authorized or listed under section 604 
of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. 
‘‘(G) Each executive agency utilizes tech-
nologies to prevent or identify fraudulent pur-
chases, including controlling merchant codes 
and utilizing statistical machine learning and 
pattern recognition technologies that review the 
risk of every transaction. 
‘‘(H) Each executive agency ensures that 
the travel charge card of each employee who 
ceases to be employed by the agency is invali-
dated immediately upon termination of the em-
ployment of the employee. 
‘‘(I) Each executive agency utilizes manda-
tory split disbursements for travel card pur-
chases. 
‘‘(2) REGULATIONS.—The Administrator of 
General Services shall prescribe regulations gov-
erning the implementation of the safeguards and in-
ternal controls in paragraph (1) by executive agen-
cies. 
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‘‘(3) PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.—The regu-
lations prescribed under paragraph (2) shall provide 
for appropriate adverse personnel actions or other 
punishment to be imposed in cases in which employ-
ees of an executive agency violate such regulations 
or are negligent or engage in misuse, abuse, or fraud 
with respect to a travel charge card, including re-
moval in appropriate cases. 
‘‘(4) ASSESSMENTS.—The Inspector General of 
each executive agency shall— 
‘‘(A) periodically conduct risk assessments 
of the agency travel card program and associ-
ated internal controls and analyze identified 
weaknesses and the frequency of improper ac-
tivity in order to develop a plan for using such 
risk assessments to determine the scope, fre-
quency, and number of periodic audits of pur-
chase cardholders; 
‘‘(B) perform periodic audits of travel 
cardholders designed to identify potentially 
fraudulent, improper, and abusive uses of travel 
cards; 
‘‘(C) report to the head of the executive 
agency concerned on the results of such audits; 
and 
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‘‘(D) report to the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget and the Comptroller 
General on the implementation of recommenda-
tions made to the head of the executive agency 
to address findings during audits of travel card-
holders. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) The term ‘executive agency’ means an 
agency as that term is defined in section 5701 
of title 5, United States Code, except that it is 
in the executive branch. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘travel charge card’ means 
the Federal contractor-issued travel charge card 
that is individually billed to each cardholder.’’. 
SEC. 4. MANAGEMENT OF CENTRALLY BILLED ACCOUNTS. 
The head of an executive agency that has employees 
who use a centrally billed account shall establish and 
maintain safeguards and internal controls to ensure the 
following: 
(1) Items submitted on an employee’s travel 
voucher are compared with items paid for using a 
centrally billed account to ensure that an employee 
is not reimbursed for an item already paid for 
through a centrally billed account. 
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(2) The executive agency submits requests for 
refunds for unauthorized purchases to the holder of 
the applicable contract for a centrally billed account. 
(3) The executive agency submits requests for 
refunds for fully or partially unused tickets to the 
holder of the applicable contract for a centrally 
billed account. 
SEC. 5. REGULATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) the head of each executive agency shall pro-
mulgate regulations to implement the requirements 
of sections 2 and 4; and 
(2) the Administrator of General Services shall 
promulgate regulations required pursuant to the 
amendments made by section 3. 
(b) BEST
PRACTICES.—Regulations promulgated 
under this section shall reflect best practices for con-
ducting purchase card and travel card programs. 
Æ 
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