A bill to provide for the collection of death information from States for purposes of the Do Not Pay Initiative, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-4330
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2020-07-27
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government information and archives

Health information and medical records

Intergovernmental relations
Latest action: action_date: 2020-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-07-27
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the incorporation of information from death certificates that is voluntarily provided by states or political subdivisions into a system used by federal agencies to verify the eligibility of an individual to receive certain federal payments.</p> <p>The Department of the Treasury may pay states and jurisdictions for the reasonable costs of transcribing and transmitting this information.</p> </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4330 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 27, 2020 Mr. Kennedy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To provide for the collection of death information from States for purposes of the Do Not Pay Initiative, and for other purposes.

1. Collection of death information from States Not later than January 1, 2023, the head of the agency operating the Do Not Pay working system described in section 3354(c) of title 31, United States Code, shall establish a program under which— (1) States (or political subdivisions thereof) voluntarily contract with the head of such agency to furnish such agency head periodically with information (in a form established by such agency head in consultation with the States) concerning individuals with respect to whom death certificates (or equivalent documents maintained by the States or subdivisions) have been officially filed with them; (2) such information, and access for its use, shall be included through the Do Not Pay Initiative under such section; and (3) each State (or political subdivision thereof) which furnishes the head of such agency with such information may be paid by such agency head from amounts available for administration of this Act the reasonable costs (established by such agency head in consultations with the States) for transcribing and transmitting such information to such agency head.