September 11th Lessons Learned in Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Implementation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6378
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Commerce
Computer matching
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Disabled
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government ownership
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Informers
Inspectors general
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Missing persons
Native Americans
Photography
Prosecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Terrorism
Veterans' employment
Video tape recording
Volunteer workers
Waste in government spending
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
September 11th Lessons Learned in Preventing Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Implementation Act of 2006 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that: (1) all Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies that administer federal emergency assistance maintain internal management controls to detect, prevent, and deter waste, fraud, and abuse; and (2) databases used by DHS to collect information on eligible recipients are integrated with disbursement and payment records to identify ineligible applications. 
 
Requires: (1) the DHS Inspector General to review relevant databases to assess the implementation of internal controls; (2) the Secretary to biennially certify that such controls are in place; (3) entities receiving assistance to periodically report to the disbursing federal agency; (4) the Secretary to implement a waste, fraud, and abuse detection and prevention training program; (5) agencies disbursing assistance to attempt to confirm the applicant's identity and eligibility; and (6) the Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator to collect, verify, and maintain information regarding applicant eligibility for loans to recover from an emergency.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) require contractors to submit information on performance before awarding, renewing, or extending a contract; and (2) maintain a database of small business entities for federal emergency-related contracting.
 
Establishes within the Office of Inspector General the position of Deputy Inspector General for Response and Recovery to conduct audits and investigations and to establish a Fraud Task Force. Requires departmental entity heads to maintain budgetary procedures to distinguish funds related to response and relief efforts from other agency funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House