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PROBLEM: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Park Centennial Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds:
            (1) The National Park Service was established to conserve 
        the national parks, their scenery, natural and historic 
        objects, and wildlife for the enjoyment, in such manner and by 
        such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of 
        future generations.
            (2) The central purpose of the establishment of our 
        national parks is being challenged by chronic funding 
        shortfalls, which have created annual shortfalls in operational 
        funding that exceed $600,000,000, and have amassed a 
        maintenance backlog estimated by the General Accounting Office 
        at between $4,080,000,000 and $6,800,000,000.
            (3) Without providing the Park Service the resources 
        necessary to operate and maintain our national parks, future 
        generations will receive diminished visitor services, will 
        experience a continually weakening system that is less and less 
        able to fulfill its mission, and will inherit a national park 
        system than has been left to them in worse condition that it 
        was left to their ancestors.
            (4) The annual appropriations process has proved incapable 
        of fully addressing the debilitating funding shortfalls of the 
        national parks, making it necessary to supplement what the 
        appropriations process is able to accomplish.
            (5) It is necessary to ensure that fiscal resources devoted 
        to the national parks are spent wisely and effectively, making 
        strong congressional oversight over annual appropriations 
        extremely important.
            (6) Congress can enhance the resources available for 
        national park operations and ensure adequate oversight over 
        Park Service spending by removing from the appropriations 
        process a series of funding responsibilities that are outside 
        the core operating budgets for the national parks.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to eliminate the annual 
operating deficit and the maintenance backlog in the national parks by 
the centennial anniversary of the National Park System by enabling 
Congress to focus on overseeing and fully funding the core operations 
of the national parks in the annual appropriations process.

                        TITLE I--CENTENNIAL FUND

SEC. 101. CENTENNIAL FUND FOR PRESERVING AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund which shall be known as the ``National Park 
Centennial Fund'', hereinafter in this Act referred to as the 
``Centennial Fund''. In each fiscal year beginning in fiscal year 2005, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit in the Centennial Fund 
amounts set forth in subsection (b) sufficient to fund the programs 
identified in titles II, III, and IV.
    (b) Appropriations.--There are hereby appropriated to the 
Centennial Fund in each fiscal year, the following amounts:
            (1) Amounts equivalent to the amounts designated in the 
        fiscal year concerned under section 6097 of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986.
            (2) Any additional amounts necessary to make the total 
        amounts deposited to the Centennial Fund each fiscal year equal 
        to the total amount listed in section 103.

SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT 
              OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter A of chapter 61 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new part:

   ``PART IX--DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE 
              BENEFIT OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

``Sec. 6097. Designation.

``SEC. 6097. DESIGNATION.

    ``(a) In General.--In the case of an individual, with respect to 
each taxpayer's return for the taxable year of the tax imposed by 
chapter 1, such taxpayer may designate that--
            ``(1) a specified portion (but not less than $1) of any 
        overpayment of tax for such taxable year, and
            ``(2) any cash contribution which the taxpayer includes 
        with such return, shall be used for the benefit of units of the 
        National Park System.
    ``(b) Manner and Time of Designation.--A designation under 
subsection (a) may be made with respect to any taxable year only at the 
time of filing the return of the tax imposed by chapter 1 for such 
taxable year. Such designation shall be made in such manner as the 
Secretary prescribes by regulations except that such designation shall 
be made either on the first page of the return or on the page bearing 
the taxpayer's signature.
    ``(c) Overpayments Treated as Refunded.--For purposes of this 
title, any portion of any overpayment of tax designated under 
subsection (a) shall be treated as being refunded to the taxpayer as of 
the last date prescribed for filing the return of tax imposed by 
chapter 1 (determined without regard to extensions) or, if later, the 
date the return is filed.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of parts for subchapter A of 
chapter 61 of such Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following new item:

   ``Part IX. Designation of overpayments and contributions for the 
            benefit of units of the National Park System''.

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004.

SEC. 103. PROGRAM ALLOCATION.

    The following amounts shall be deposited in the Centennial Fund 
from amounts designated under section 102 (and from the General Fund of 
the Treasury to the extent the amounts so designated are less than the 
total amounts specified in this section for the fiscal year concerned). 
Such amounts shall, without further appropriation, be available to the 
Secretary of the Interior until expended:
            (1) Fiscal year 2005: $100,000,000.
            (2) Fiscal year 2006: $125,000,000.
            (3) Fiscal year 2007: $150,000,000.
            (4) Fiscal year 2008: $175,000,000.
            (5) Such sums as may be necessary through fiscal year 2016.

SEC. 104. DISTRIBUTION OF FUND.

    There are hereby created within the Centennial Fund 3 accounts, 
designated for the following purposes:
            (1) National Park Backlog Elimination Fund (60 percent).
            (2) Natural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).
            (3) Cultural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).

SEC. 105. PATRIOTS FOR PARKS PROMOTION.

    There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
the Interior such sums as necessary for a public awareness campaign 
about the existence of the National Park Centennial Fund created in 
section 101 and the ability of taxpayers to contribute to it through 
the tax checkoff created in section 6097 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986.

      TITLE II--ELIMINATING THE NATIONAL PARK MAINTENANCE BACKLOG

SEC. 201. BACKLOG ELIMINATION.

    (a) In General.--Sixty percent of the funds deposited into the 
Centennial Fund shall be used to eliminate the backlog of unmet needs 
in the National Parks, as identified in the Facility Condition Index 
(hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ``FCI'') of the National 
Park Service.
    (b) Priorities.--(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare, 
as part of the annual budget proposal, a priority list for projects to 
be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made available from the 
fund, without further appropriation, effective October 15 of each 
calendar year, for the projects identified on the priority list, unless 
prior to such date, legislation is enacted establishing a different 
priority list.
    (2) In preparing the list of projects to be funded under this 
section, the Secretary of the Interior shall give priority to projects 
that--
            (A) are identified in the park unit's general management 
        plan;
            (B) are listed in the FCI;
            (C) are identified by the Secretary of the Interior as 
        necessary to prevent immediate damage to the park unit's 
        natural, cultural, or historic resources, with priority given 
        to projects with the most significant benefit to conservation 
        of resources or visitor education; and
            (D) are identified as necessary to promote public health 
        and safety.
    (c) Overhead.--National Parks undertaking projects under this 
section may allocate up to 8 percent of the funds for such projects for 
oversight of such projects and other associated overhead 
responsibilities.

                 TITLE III--PROTECTING NATURAL WONDERS

SEC. 301. NATURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Natural Resource Protection.--Twenty percent of the funds 
deposited into the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect natural 
resources within the parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the Centennial Fund, without further appropriation, 
effective October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include 
each of the following:
            (1) Natural resource inventories.
            (2) Monitoring efforts including air and water quality 
        monitoring.
            (3) Protection of native and endangered species and their 
        habitats.
            (4) Control of nonnative species.
            (5) Resource planning.
            (6) Increase collaboration with scientists.
            (7) Authorized environmental restoration projects.
            (8) Use of parks for learning.
            (9) Establishment of partnerships with nonpark entities for 
        the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to natural 
        resource protection.

                TITLE IV--PROTECTING NATIONAL TREASURES

SEC. 401. CULTURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Cultural Resources.--Twenty percent of the funds deposited into 
the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect cultural resources within 
the national parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the fund, without further appropriation, effective 
October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include each of 
the following:
            (1) Cultural or historic resources not listed on the FCI.
            (2) Documenting and preserving archaeological sites.
            (3) Preserving collections and archives.
            (4) Ethnographic activities.
            (5) Evaluating and protecting cultural landscapes.
            (6) Establishment of partnerships with non-park entities 
        for the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to 
        cultural resource protection.

                TITLE V--MEETING ANNUAL OPERATING NEEDS

SEC. 501. PROGRESS ON ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) GAO Report.--The General Accounting Office annually shall 
submit to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Government 
Reform, and Committee on Resources of the United States House of 
Representatives and to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on 
Government Affairs, and Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the United States Senate a report that describes each of the following:
            (1) The progress of Congress in eliminating the annual 
        operating fund deficit in the National Park System, defined as 
        in excess of $600,000,000 based on a fiscal year 2002 estimate 
        of then-complete national park business plans, and projection 
        of when such deficit will be eliminated, based on funding 
        levels and trends.
            (2) A comparison of business plan estimates of national 
        park needs versus actual funds appropriated to such parks.
            (3) Any differences in the Park Service's business plan 
        methodology for the estimate in paragraph (2) of this 
        subsection compared to that used in fiscal year 2003.
            (4) Management improvement measures undertaken by 
        individual park units and by the National Park Service as a 
        whole, including actual realized savings and actual impact on 
        visitor services and resource protection.
            (5) Adjustments in, and the total number of, full-time 
        equivalent and actual positions dedicated to resource 
        protection, visitor services, interpretation, and other 
        employment categories.
            (6) Any adjustments made in service to the public, 
        including but not limited to adjustments to visitor center 
        hours and the number or quality of ranger-led tours.
            (7) Any changes in the Park Service's level of effort due 
        to partnership or other leveraged activities.
            (8) Any new requirements and assessments placed on the 
        parks for unbudgeted expenses, including, but not limited to, 
        homeland security, natural disasters, and employee cost-of-
        living adjustments.
            (9) An assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the 
        Facility Condition Index described in Title I of this Act, 
        including adjustments made to such Index on an annual basis.
    (b) Business Plan Implementation Pilot (Demonstration) Program.--In 
consultation with the Director of the National Park Service, at least 
60 percent of the amounts provided under Titles II, III, and IV shall 
be distributed to national parks that have completed comprehensive 
business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the National Park 
Service.
    (c) Education and the National Parks.--The Secretary of Education 
is hereby authorized to provide grants to elementary and secondary 
schools to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Park 
Service for the purpose of distance learning and onsite education 
programs for the following purposes:
            (1) Connecting students to the history of our Nation 
        through the national parks.
            (2) Using the parks to facilitate scientific instruction.
    (d) Intent of Congress to Supplement Annual Appropriations for 
National Park Service.--Amounts made available by this Act are intended 
by the Congress to supplement, and not detract from, annual 
appropriations for the National Park Service.

SOLUTION: National Park Centennial Act of 2004 - Establishes the National Park Centennial Fund (Fund) in the Treasury.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate overpayments and contributions for the benefit of the National Park System. Allocates such amounts to the Fund (along with necessary amounts from the General Fund to the extent that such amounts are inadequate in any fiscal year) for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior.

Creates within the Fund the National Park Backlog Elimination Fund, the Natural Resource Challenge Fund, and the Cultural Resource Challenge Fund.

Authorizes appropriations for a public awareness campaign about the Fund and the ability of taxpayers to make tax-related contributions.

Requires a specified percentage of Fund deposits to be used: (1) for the elimination of the backlog of unmet needs in the national parks as identified in the Facility Condition Index of the National Park Service (NPS); (2) to protect natural resources within the parks; and (3) to protect cultural resources within the parks. Requires a majority of such percentages to be distributed to those national parks that have completed comprehensive business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the NPS.

Directs the Government Accountability Office annually to submit a report on the National Park System to specified congressional committees.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to elementary and secondary schools for cooperative agreements with the NPS providing distance learning and onsite education programs.

PROBLEM: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Major Regulation Cost Review Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR PERIODIC REVIEW OF ALL MAJOR RULES.

    (a) Requirement.--Chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 610 the following new section:
``Sec. 610a. Periodic review of major rules
    ``(a)  Requirement for Review of Major Rules.--Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of the Major Regulation Cost 
Review Act of 2004, each agency shall publish in the Federal Register a 
plan for the periodic review of all the major rules issued by the 
agency. Such plan may be amended by the agency at any time by 
publishing the revision in the Federal Register.
    ``(b) Purpose of Review.--The purpose of the review shall be to 
determine whether such rules should be continued without change, or 
should be amended or rescinded, consistent with the stated objectives 
of applicable statutes.
    ``(c) Review Within Five Years.--The plan shall provide for the 
review of all such agency rules existing on the effective date of the 
Major Regulation Cost Review Act of 2004 within five years after that 
date and for the review of such rules adopted after such effective date 
within five years after the publication of such rules as the final 
rule. If the head of the agency determines that completion of the 
review of existing rules is not feasible by the established date, the 
head of the agency shall so certify in a statement published in the 
Federal Register and may extend the completion date by one year at a 
time for a total of not more than five years.
    ``(d) Factors to Consider.--In reviewing major rules in a manner 
consistent with the stated objectives of applicable statutes, the 
agency shall consider the following factors:
            ``(1) The continued need for the rule.
            ``(2) The nature of complaints or comments received 
        concerning the rule from the public.
            ``(3) The complexity of the rule.
            ``(4) The extent to which the rule overlaps, duplicates, or 
        conflicts with other Federal rules, and, to the extent 
        feasible, with State and local governmental rules.
            ``(5) The length of time since the rule has been evaluated 
        or the degree to which technology, economic conditions, or 
        other factors have changed in the area affected by the rule.
    ``(e) Cost-Benefit Analysis.--The review shall include a cost-
benefit analysis of the rule, using the standard cost-benefit 
methodology included in Office of Management and Budget Circular A-4 
(relating to regulatory analysis and issued September 17, 2003). The 
cost-benefit analysis shall include an identification and consideration 
of a range of less costly regulatory alternatives.
    ``(f) Publication of List of Rules to Be Reviewed.--Each year, each 
agency shall publish in the Federal Register a list of the major rules 
which are to be reviewed pursuant to this section during the succeeding 
12 months and which are to be included in the accounting statement and 
associated report submitted to Congress by the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget under paragraph (4) of section 624(a) of the 
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (as added by 
section 3 of the Major Regulation Cost Review Act of 2004). The list 
shall include a brief description of each such major rule and the need 
for and legal basis of such rule, and shall invite public comment upon 
the rule.
    ``(g) Major Rule Defined.--In this section, the term `major rule' 
has the meaning provided by section 804 of this title.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 6 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 610 the following new item:

``610a. Periodic review of major rules.''.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENTS FOR OMB RELATING TO ANNUAL ACCOUNTING STATEMENT.

    (a) Requirement to Include List of Rules to Be Reviewed in Annual 
Accounting Statement.--Section 624(a) of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 
106-554; 114 Stat. 2763A-161), is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (2);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (3) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) a list of the major rules which are to be reviewed by 
        each agency, during the year following the year in which the 
        statement and report are submitted, pursuant to section 610a of 
        title 5, United States Code.''.
    (b) Requirement to Use Agency Cost-Benefit Estimates in Annual 
Accounting Statement.--Section 624 of the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 
106-554; 114 Stat. 2763A-161), is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as 
        subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(b) Use of Agency Cost-Benefit Analyses Required.--To carry out 
subsection (a), the Director of the Office of Manage

SOLUTION: Major Regulation Cost Review Act of 2004 - Amends Federal civil service law to require each Federal agency to publish in the Federal Register a plan, which may be amended at any time by publishing a revision, for the periodic review of all the major rules issued by the agency. Requires that the plan provide for review within five years after publication as a final rule, with a five year extension permitted.

Directs the agency, in reviewing major rules, to consider: (1) the continued need for the rule; (2) the nature of complaints or comments received from the public concerning the rule; (3) the complexity of the rule; (4) the extent to which the rule overlaps, duplicates, or conflicts with other Federal rules, and with State and local governmental rules; and (5) the length of time since the rule has been evaluated or the degree to which technology, economic conditions, or other factors have changed in the area affected by the rule.

Requires that: (1) the review include a cost-benefit analysis of the rule, including an identification and consideration of a range of less costly regulatory alternatives; and (2) each year each agency publish a list of the major rules which are to be reviewed and which are to be included in the accounting statement and associated report submitted to Congress by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Makes conforming changes to the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001.

PROBLEM: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Government Credit Card Abuse 
Prevention Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT OF PURCHASE CARDS.

    (a) Required Safeguards and Internal Controls.--The head of each 
executive agency that issues and uses purchase cards and convenience 
checks shall establish and maintain safeguards and internal controls to 
ensure the following:
            (1) There is a record in each executive agency of each 
        holder of a purchase card issued by the agency for official 
        use, annotated with the limitations on single transaction and 
        total credit amounts that are applicable to the use of each 
        such card by that purchase cardholder.
            (2) Each purchase card holder is assigned an approving 
        official other than the card holder with the authority to 
        approve or disapprove expenditures.
            (3) The holder of a purchase card and each official with 
        authority to authorize expenditures charged to the purchase 
        card are responsible for--
                    (A) reconciling the charges appearing on each 
                statement of account for that purchase card with 
                receipts and other supporting documentation; and
                    (B) forwarding such reconciliation to the 
                designated official who certifies the bill for payment 
                in a timely manner.
            (4) Any disputed purchase card charge, and any discrepancy 
        between a receipt and other supporting documentation and the 
        purchase card statement of account, is resolved in the manner 
        prescribed in the applicable Governmentwide purchase card 
        contract entered into by the Administrator of General Services.
            (5) Payments on purchase card accounts are made promptly 
        within prescribed deadlines to avoid interest penalties.
            (6) Rebates and refunds based on prompt payment on purchase 
        card accounts are monitored for accuracy and properly recorded 
        as a receipt to the agency that pays the monthly bill.
            (7) Records of each purchase card transaction (including 
        records on associated contracts, reports, accounts, and 
        invoices) are retained in accordance with standard Government 
        policies on the disposition of records.
            (8) Periodic reviews are performed to determine whether 
        each purchase cardholder has a need for the purchase card.
            (9) Appropriate training is provided to each purchase 
        cardholder and each official with responsibility for overseeing 
        the use of purchase cards issued by an executive agency.
            (10) The executive agency has specific policies regarding 
        the number of purchase cards issued by various organizations 
        and categories of organizations, the credit limits authorized 
        for various categories of cardholders, and categories of 
        employees eligible to be issued purchase cards, and that those 
        policies are designed to minimize the financial risk to the 
        Federal Government of the issuance of the purchase cards and to 
        ensure the integrity of purchase cardholders.
            (11) The executive agency utilizes technologies to prevent 
        or identify fraudulent purchases, including controlling 
        merchant codes and utilizing statistical machine learning and 
        pattern recognition technologies that review the risk of every 
        transaction.
            (12) The executive agency invalidates the purchase card of 
        each employee who--
                    (A) ceases to be employed by the agency immediately 
                upon termination of the employment of the employee; or
                    (B) transfers to another unit of the agency 
                immediately upon the transfer of the employee.
            (13) The executive agency takes steps to recover the cost 
        of any improper or fraudulent purchase made by an employee, 
        including, as necessary, through salary offsets.
    (b) Management of Purchase Cards.--The head of each executive 
agency shall prescribe regulations implementing the safeguards and 
internal controls in subsection (a). The regulations shall be 
consistent with regulations that apply Governmentwide regarding the use 
of purchase cards by Government personnel for official purposes.
    (c) Penalties for Violations.--The regulations prescribed under 
subsection (b) shall provide for appropriate adverse personnel actions 
or other punishment to be imposed in cases in which employees of an 
executive agency violate such regulations or are negligent or engage in 
misuse, abuse, or fraud with respect to a purchase card, including 
imposition of the following penalties:
            (1) In the case of an employee who is suspected by the 
        executive agency to have engaged in fraud, referral of the case 
        to the United States Attorney with jurisdiction over the 
        matter.
            (2) In the case of an employee who is found guilty of fraud 
        or found by the executive agency to have egregiously abused a 
        purchase card, dismissal of the employee.
    (d) Risk Assessments and Audits.--The Inspector General of each 
executive agency shall--
            (1) periodically conduct risk assessments of the agency 
        purchase card program and associated internal controls and 
        analyze identified weaknesses and the frequency of improper 
        activity in order to develop a plan for using such risk 
        assessments to determine the scope, frequency, and number of 
        periodic audits of purchase cardholders;
            (2) perform periodic audits of purchase cardholders 
        designed to identify--
                    (A) potentially fraudulent, improper, and abusive 
                uses of purchase cards;
                    (B) any patterns of improper cardholder 
                transactions, such as purchases of prohibited items; 
                and
                    (C) categories of purchases that should be made by 
                means other than purchase cards in order to better 
                aggregate purchases and obtain lower prices;
            (3) report to the head of the executive agency concerned on 
        the results of such audits; and
            (4) report to the Director of the Office of Management and 
        Budget and the Comptroller General on the implementation of 
        recommendations made to the head of the executive agency to 
        address findings during audits of purchase cardholders.
    (e) Definition of Executive Agency.--In this section, the term 
``executive agency'' has the meaning given such term in section 4(1) of 
the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(1)).
    (f) Relationship to Department of Defense Purchase Card 
Regulations.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided by the amendments made 
        by paragraph (2), the requirements under this section shall not 
        apply to the Department of Defense.
            (2) Exception.--Section 2784(b) of title 10, United States 
        Code, is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (8), by striking ``periodic 
                audits'' and all that follows through the period at the 
                end and inserting ``risk assessments of the agency 
                purchase card program and associated internal controls 
                and analyze identified weaknesses and the frequency of 
                improper activity in order to develop a plan for using 
                such risk assessments to determine the scope, 
                frequency, and number of periodic audits of purchase 
                cardholders.''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraphs:
            ``(11) That the Department of Defense utilizes technologies 
        to prevent or identify fraudulent purchases, including 
        controlling merchant codes and utilizing statistical machine 
        learning and pattern recognition technologies that review the 
        risk of every transaction.
            ``(12) That the Secretary of Defense--
                    ``(A) invalidates the purchase card of each 
                employee who ceases to be employed by the Department of 
                Defense immediately upon termination of the employment 
                of the employee; and
                    ``(B) invalidates the purchase card of each 
                employee who transfers to another agency or subunit 
                within the Department of Defense immediately upon such 
                transfer.''.

SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT OF TRAVEL CARDS.

    Section 2 of the Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998 
(Public Law 105-264; 5 U.S.C. 5701 note) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Management of Travel Charge Cards.--
            ``(1) Required safeguards and internal controls.--The head 
        of each executive agency that has employees that use travel 
        charge cards shall establish and maintain safeguards and 
        internal controls over travel charge cards to ensure the 
        following:
                    ``(A) There is a record in each executive agency of 
                each holder of a travel charge card issued by the 
                agency for official use, annotated with the limitations 
                on amounts that are applicable to the use of each such 
                card by that travel charge cardholder.
                    ``(B) Rebates and refunds based on prompt payment 
                on travel charge card accounts are properly recorded as 
                a receipt of the agency that employs the cardholder.
                    ``(C) Periodic reviews are performed to determine 
                whether each travel charge cardholder has a need for 
                the travel charge card.
                    ``(D) Appropriate training is provided to each 
                travel charge cardholder and each official with 
                responsibility for overseeing the use of travel charge 
                cards issued by an executive agency.
                    ``(E) Each executive agency has specific policies 
                regarding the number of travel charge cards issued by 
                various organizations and categories of organizations, 
                the credit limits authorized for various categories of 
                cardholders, and categories of employees eligible to be 
                issued travel charge cards, and that those policies are 
                designed to minimize the financial risk to the Federal 
                Government of the issuance of the travel charge cards 
                and to ensure the integrity of travel charge 
                cardholders.
                    ``(F) The head of each executive agency negotiates 
                with the holder of the applicable travel card contract, 
                or a third party provider of credit evaluations if such 
                provider offers more favorable terms, to evaluate the 
                creditworthiness of an individual before issuing the 
                individual a travel charge card, and that no individual 
                be issued a travel charge card if the individual is 
                found not creditworthy as a result of the evaluation 
                (except that this paragraph shall not preclude issuance 
                of a restricted use travel charge card when the 
                individual lacks a credit history or the issuance of a 
                pre-paid card when the individual has a credit score 
                below the minimum credit score established by the 
                agency). Each executive agency shall establish a 
                minimum credit score for determining the 
                creditworthiness of an individual based on rigorous 
                statistical analysis of the population of cardholders 
                and historical behaviors. Notwithstanding any other 
                provision of law, such evaluation shall include an 
                assessment of an individual's consumer report from a 
                consumer reporting agency as those terms are defined in 
                section 603 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The 
                obtaining of a consumer report under this subsection is 
                deemed to be a circumstance or purpose authorized or 
                listed under section 604 of the Fair Credit Reporting 
                Act.
                    ``(G) Each executive agency utilizes technologies 
                to prevent or identify fraudulent purchases, including 
                controlling merchant codes and utilizing statistical 
                machine learning and pattern recognition technologies 
                that review the risk of every transaction.
                    ``(H) Each executive agency ensures that the travel 
                charge card of each employee who ceases to be employed 
                by the agency is invalidated immediately upon 
                termination of the employment of the employee.
                    ``(I) Each executive agency utilizes mandatory 
                split disbursements for travel card purchases.
            ``(2) Regulations.--The Administrator of General Services 
        shall prescribe regulations governing the implementation of the 
        safeguards and internal controls in paragraph (1) by executive 
        agencies.
            ``(3) Penalties for violations.--The regulations prescribed 
        under paragraph (2) shall provide for appropriate adverse 
        personnel actions or other punishment to be imposed in cases in 
        which employees of an executive agency violate such regulations 
        or are negligent or engage in misuse, abuse, or fraud with 
        respect to a travel charge card, including removal in 
        appropriate cases.
            ``(4) Assessments.--The Inspector General of each executive 
        agency shall--
                    ``(A) periodically conduct risk assessments of the 
                agency travel card program and associated internal 
                controls and analyze identified weaknesses and the 
                frequency of improper activity in order to develop a 
                plan for using such risk assessments to determine the 
                scope, frequency, and number of periodic audits of 
                purchase cardholders;
                    ``(B) perform periodic audits of travel cardholders 
                designed to identify potentially fraudulent, improper, 
                and abusive uses of travel cards;
                    ``(C) report to the head of the executive agency 
                concerned on the results of such audits; and
                    ``(D) report to the Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget and the Comptroller General on 
                the implementation of recommendations made to the head 
                of the executive agency to address findings during 
                audits of travel cardholders.
            ``(5) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) The term `executive agency' means an agency 
                as that term is defined in section 5701 of title 5, 
                United States Code, except that it is in the executive 
                branch.
                    ``(B) The term `travel charge card' means the 
                Federal contractor-issued travel charge card that is 
                individually billed to each cardholder.''.

SEC. 4. MANAGEMENT OF CENTRALLY BILLED ACCOUNTS.

    The head of an executive agency that has employees who use a 
centrally billed account shall establish and maintain safeguards and 
internal controls to ensure the following:
            (1) Items submitted on an employee's travel voucher are 
        compared with items paid for using a centrally billed account 
        to ensure that an employee is not reimbursed for an item 
        already paid for through a centrally billed account.
            (2) The executive agency submits requests for refunds for 
        unauthorized purchases to the holder of the applicable contract 
        for a centrally billed account.
            (3) The executive agency submits requests for refunds for 
        fully or partially unused tickets to the holder of the 
        applicable contract for a centrally billed account.

SEC. 5. REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act--
            (1) the head of each executive agency shall promulgate 
        regulations to implement the requirements of sections 2 and 4; 
        and
            (2) the Administrator of General Services shall promulgate 
        regulations required pursuant to the amendments made by section 
        3.
    (b) Best Practices.--Regulations promulgated under this section 
shall reflect best practices for conducting purchase card and travel 
card programs.

SOLUTION:
Government Credit Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2007 - Requires the head of each executive agency, except the Department of Defense (DOD), to: (1) establish safeguards and internal controls for purchase cards, convenience checks, and travel cards; and (2) prescribe regulations implementing such safeguards and controls that provide for adverse personnel actions or other punishment against employees for card violations, negligence, misuse, abuse, or fraud.

Requires each agency Inspector General to: (1) periodically conduct risk assessments of agency purchase and travel card programs and associated internal controls, analyze weaknesses and the frequency of improper activity, and develop a plan to determine the scope, frequency, and number of periodic audits of cardholders; (2) perform periodic audits of card holders and report results to the agency head; and (3) report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OBM) and the Comptroller General on the implementation of recommendations to address audit findings.

Requires DOD regulations that govern the use and control of purchase cards and convenience checks that are issued to DOD personnel to include safeguards and internal controls to ensure that: (1) the Inspector Generals of DOD, the Army, the Navy, and the Airforce periodically conduct risk assessments of the DOD purchase card program and associated internal controls, analyze weaknesses and the frequency of improper activity, and develop a plan to determine the scope, frequency, and number of periodic audits of cardholders; (2) DOD utilizes technologies to prevent or identify fraudulent purchases, including controlling merchant codes and utilizing statistical machine learning and pattern recognition technologies that review the risk of every transaction; and (3) DOD invalidates the purchase card of terminated or transferred employees.

Amends the Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998 to require each agency head to establish safeguards and internal controls over travel charge cards. Requires the Administrator of General Services to prescribe regulations governing the implementation of such safeguards and internal controls.

Requires the heads of agencies that have employees who use centrally billed accounts to establish safeguards and internal controls to ensure that agencies: (1) compare items submitted on an employee's travel voucher with items paid using such an account; (2) dispute unauthorized charges and track disputed transactions to ensure appropriate resolution; and (3) submit requests for refunds for fully or partially unused tickets to the holder of the applicable contract for a centrally billed account.