I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1101 
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the Bureau of the 
Fiscal Service within the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 6, 2025 
Ms. STEVENS (for herself, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. WHITESIDES, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, 
Ms. SHERRILL, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. ADAMS, 
Mr. PALLONE, Mr. FROST, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
LARSON
of Connecticut, Mr. SUBRAMANYAM, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. 
AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. TITUS, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. GARCIA of California, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Mr. AMO, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. 
BISHOP, Mr. TURNER of Texas, Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, 
Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis-
sissippi, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. CASTOR of 
Florida, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. PETERS, Mr. 
LIEU, Mrs. MCCLAIN DELANEY, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. NORCROSS, 
Mr. KEATING, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mr. LATIMER, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. 
WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. CARSON, Mr. STANTON, Mr. 
VARGAS, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MANNION, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. CRAIG, Ms. 
MATSUI, Mr. COHEN, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. PRESSLEY, 
Mr. CASAR, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. EVANS of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
MCGARVEY, Mr. TONKO, Ms. ROSS, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms. 
PELOSI, Mr. MRVAN, Ms. BROWN, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. OMAR, Mr. 
POCAN, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. BALINT, Mr. 
CROW, Mr. IVEY, Ms. CHU, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. 
DELBENE, Ms. ELFRETH, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. GOMEZ, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. 
SHERMAN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. THOMPSON of California, 
Ms. POU, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. FIGURES, 
Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. MAGAZINER, 
Mr. KENNEDY of New York, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. HIMES, Ms. MCDONALD 
RIVET, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. LICCARDO, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. 
TRAN, Ms. FRIEDMAN, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. VINDMAN, 
Ms. SALINAS, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. 
CLYBURN, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of 
Florida, Mr. CARBAJAL, Ms. RANDALL, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. CISNEROS, Ms. 
RIVAS, Mr. AGUILAR, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. MORRISON, Ms. CLARK 
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of Massachusetts, Mr. MIN, and Mr. CASTRO of Texas) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 
and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the 
Bureau of the Fiscal Service within the Department of 
the Treasury, 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 ‘‘Taxpayer Data Protec-
tion Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ACCESS TO PAYMENT SYSTEM OF 
BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE. 
Section 321 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e)(1) The Secretary may not allow any individual 
to use, exercise administrative control over, or otherwise 
access any Department of the Treasury public money re-
ceipt or payment system (including any payment system 
of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (or any successor 
thereof)), or any data from any such system, unless— 
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‘‘(A) such individual is an officer, employee, or 
contractor of the Department of the Treasury— 
‘‘(i) who is otherwise eligible to access such 
system or data; 
‘‘(ii) whose most recent performance rating 
was at the fully successful level or higher (or 
the equivalent thereof); and 
‘‘(iii) who, as of the date of such access, 
with respect to such an officer or employee has 
occupied a position in the civil service (as that 
term is defined in section 2101 of title 5), or 
with respect to such a contractor has been per-
forming under a contract with the Department, 
for a period of at least one year; or 
‘‘(B) in the case of an individual not described 
in subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(i) such individual holds a security clear-
ance at the appropriate level with respect to 
such system or data and such clearance was 
granted pursuant to the procedures established 
under section 801 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3161)); 
‘‘(ii) such individual’s access to such sys-
tem or data, or use thereof, does not constitute 
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a violation of section 208 of title 18 (deter-
mined after the application of paragraph (2)); 
‘‘(iii) such individual is not a special Gov-
ernment employee (as defined in section 202 of 
title 18); 
‘‘(iv) such individual’s current continuous 
service in the civil service (as that term is de-
fined in section 2101 of title 5) as of the date 
of such access is for a period of at least 1 year; 
‘‘(v) such individual has completed any re-
quired training or compliance procedures with 
respect to privacy laws and cybersecurity and 
national security regulations and best practices; 
and 
‘‘(vi) has signed a written ethics agreement 
with either the Department of the Treasury or 
the Office of Government Ethics. 
‘‘(2)(A) Any individual who accesses any system 
or data described in paragraph (1) who is not other-
wise an officer or employee of the executive branch 
of the United States Government shall be treated as 
an employee of the executive branch of the United 
States Government for purposes of section 208 of 
title 18. 
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‘‘(B) For purposes of such section 208, exercise 
of administrative control or stopping, canceling, ad-
justing, holding, rejecting, changing, or otherwise 
impacting any payment or data in any Department 
of the Treasury public money receipt or payment 
system (including any payment system of the Bu-
reau of the Fiscal Service (or any successor there-
of)), shall be considered personal and substantial 
participation as a Government officer or employee in 
a particular matter. 
‘‘(3) The Inspector General of the Department 
of the Treasury shall investigate, and submit a re-
port to Congress on such investigation, each in-
stance of unauthorized use or other access of any 
payment system described in paragraph (1). Any 
such report shall be submitted not later than 30 
days after any such instance and shall include— 
‘‘(A) a detailed description of the unau-
thorized use or access, including any actions the 
individual carried out; 
‘‘(B) a risk assessment of any threat to 
privacy, national security, cybersecurity, or the 
integrity of the applicable system as a result of 
such unauthorized use or access; and 
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‘‘(C) a detailed description of any stopped 
payments during the unauthorized use or ac-
cess.’’. 
Æ 
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