RECOUP Act

Bill: 115-s-1329
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2017-06-08
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Debt collection

Executive agency funding and structure
Latest action: action_date: 2017-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-06-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>REcovering and COllecting Unclaimed federal Property Act of 2017 or the RECOUP Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury to: (1) locate and recover assets of the U.S. government on behalf of any executive, judicial, or legislative agency; and (2) retain a portion of the amounts recovered to cover the administrative and operational costs of Treasury for locating and recovering the assets. Any savings from carrying out this bill must be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury for deficit reduction.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1329 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 8, 2017 Mrs. Fischer (for herself and Mr. Manchin ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title 31, United States Code, to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to locate and recover certain assets of the United States Government.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the REcovering and COllecting Unclaimed federal Property Act of 2017 or the RECOUP Act . 2. Increase and streamline recovery of unclaimed assets owed to the United States Section 3711 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (j) (1) The Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this subsection as the “Secretary”) may locate and recover assets of the United States Government on behalf of any executive, judicial, or legislative agency in accordance with such procedures as the Secretary considers appropriate. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law concerning the depositing or collection of Federal payments, including section 3302(b), the Secretary may retain a portion of the amounts recovered under this subsection to cover the administrative and operational costs of the Secretary associated with locating and recovering assets of the United States Government. (3) The Secretary shall use any funds appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this subsection. (4) Any savings associated with carrying out this subsection shall be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury for the purpose of deficit reduction. .