Preventing Improper Payments Act

Bill: 117-hr-9613
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Spanberger, Abigail Davis [D-VA-7]
Introduced: 2022-12-16
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Latest action: action_date: 2022-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-12-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Preventing Improper Payments Act</strong></p> <p>This bill designates any program or activity making more than $100 million in payments in a fiscal year as susceptible to significant improper payments. Under current law, programs designated as susceptible to significant improper payments are subject to additional assessments and reporting requirements.</p> <p>The bill requires each agency to submit to Congress, as part of the annual financial report of the agency, a report on</p> <ul> <li> implementing financial and administrative controls and certain other practices with respect to fraud risk;</li> <li> identifying risks and vulnerabilities to fraud; and </li> <li>establishing strategies, procedures, and other steps to curb fraud.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9613 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2022 Ms. Spanberger (for herself and Mr. Moore of Utah ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform A BILL To change the treatment of certain Federal programs with respect to susceptibility to significant improper payments, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Improper Payments Act . 2. Treatment of certain new programs and activities Section 3352(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Rule of construction Any program or activity established by a Federal agency on or after the date of the enactment of this paragraph making more than $100,000,000 in payments in a fiscal year shall be construed to be a program or activity with outlays exceeding the statutory threshold dollar amount described in paragraph (3)(A)(i) that may be susceptible to significant improper payment. . 3. Report requirement Section 3357(d) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking For each of fiscal years 2019 and 2020, each and inserting the following: Each .