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Section 3321. Disbursing authority in the executive branch
31 U.S. Code § 3321. Disbursing authority in the executive branch
“SEC. 1801. SHORT TITLE.
“This title may be cited as the ‘Saving Federal Dollars Through Better Use of Government Purchase and Travel Cards Act of 2017’.
“SEC. 1802. DEFINITIONS.“In this title:
“(1)Improper payment.—
The term ‘improper payment’ has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 [Pub. L. 107–300] (31 U.S.C. 3321 note).
“(2)Questionable transaction.—
The term ‘questionable transaction’ means a charge card transaction that from initial card data appears to be high risk and may therefore be improper due to non-compliance with applicable law, regulation or policy.
“(3)Strategic sourcing.—
The term ‘strategic sourcing’ means analyzing and modifying a Federal agency’s spending patterns to better leverage its purchasing power, reduce costs, and improve overall performance.
“SEC. 1803. EXPANDED USE OF DATA ANALYTICS.
“(a)Strategy.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 12, 2017], the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator for General Services, shall develop a strategy to expand the use of data analytics in managing government purchase and travel charge card programs. These analytics may employ existing General Services Administration capabilities, and may be in conjunction with agencies’ capabilities, for the purpose of—
“(1) identifying examples or patterns of questionable transactions and developing enhanced tools and methods for agency use in—
identifying potential opportunities for agencies to further leverage administrative process streamlining and cost reduction from purchase and travel card use, including additional agency opportunities for card-based strategic sourcing;
developing a set of purchase and travel card metrics and benchmarks for high-risk activities, which shall assist agencies in identifying potential emphasis areas for their purchase and travel card management and oversight activities, including those required by the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–194) [see Short Title of 2012 Amendment note set out under section 101 of Title 41, Public Contracts]; and
“SEC. 1804. GUIDANCE ON IMPROVING INFORMATION SHARING TO CURB IMPROPER PAYMENTS.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 12, 2017], the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services and the interagency charge card data management group established under section 1805, shall issue guidance on improving information sharing by government agencies for the purposes of section 1803(a)(1).
“(b)Elements.—The guidance issued under subsection (a) shall—
include other requirements determined appropriate by the Director for the purposes of carrying out this title.
“SEC. 1805. INTERAGENCY CHARGE CARD DATA MANAGEMENT GROUP.
The Administrator of General Services and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall establish a purchase and travel charge card data management group to develop and share best practices for the purposes described in section 1803(a).
“(b)Elements.—The best practices developed under subsection (a) shall—
The purchase and travel charge card data management group shall meet regularly as determined by the co-chairs, for a duration of three years, and include those agencies as described in section 2 of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–194) [enacting section 1909 of Title 41, Public Contracts and provisions set out as a note under section 1909 of Title 41 and amending section 2784 of Title 10, Armed Forces] and others identified by the Administrator and Director.
“SEC. 1806. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 12, 2017], the Administrator for General Services shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives a report on the implementation of this title, including the metrics used in determining whether the analytic and benchmarking efforts have reduced, or contributed to the reduction of, questionable transactions or improper payments as well as improved utilization of card-based payment products.
“(b)Agency Reports and Consolidated Report to .—
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal agency described in section 2 of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–194) shall submit a report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on that agency’s activities to implement this title.
“(c) Report to .—
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives a consolidated report of agency activities to implement this title, which may be included as part of another report submitted by the Director to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives.
“(d)Report on Additional Savings Opportunities.—
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of General Services shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives a report identifying and exploring further potential savings opportunities for government agencies under the Federal charge card programs. This report may be combined with the report required under subsection (a).”
“This Act may be cited as the ‘Fraud Reduction and Data Analytics Act of 2015’.
“SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.“In this Act—
the term ‘agency’ has the meaning given the term in section 551 of title 5, United States Code; and
the term ‘improper payment’ has the meaning given the term in section 2(g) of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 [Pub. L. 107–300] (31 U.S.C. 3321 note).
“SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS RELATING TO FRAUD AND IMPROPER PAYMENTS.
“(a)Guidelines.—
Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act [June 30, 2016], the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Comptroller General of the United States, shall establish guidelines for agencies to establish financial and administrative controls to identify and assess fraud risks and design and implement control activities in order to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud, including improper payments.
The guidelines described in paragraph (1) shall incorporate the leading practices identified in the report published by the Government Accountability Office on July 28, 2015, entitled ‘Framework for Managing Fraud Risks in Federal Programs’.
“(b)Requirements for Controls.—The financial and administrative controls required to be established by agencies under subsection (a) shall include—
“(1)In general.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), for each of the first 3 fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, each agency shall submit to Congress, as part of the annual financial report of the agency, a report on the progress of the agency in—
“(A) implementing—
“(2)First report.—
“SEC. 4. WORKING GROUP.
“(a)Establishment.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act [June 30, 2016], the Office of Management and Budget shall establish a working group to improve—
“(b)Composition.—The working group established under subsection (a) shall be composed of—
Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the working group established under subsection (a) shall submit to Congress a plan for the establishment and use of a Federal interagency library of data analytics and data sets, which can incorporate or improve upon existing Federal resources and capacities, for use by agencies and Offices of Inspectors General to facilitate the detection, prevention, and recovery of fraud, including improper payments.”
Pub. L. 112–248, Jan. 10, 2013, 126 Stat. 2390, as amended by Pub. L. 113–67, div. A, title II, § 204(c), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1181; Pub. L. 114–109, §§ 2–4, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2225–2227, provided that:
“SEC. 3. IMPROVING THE DETERMINATION OF IMPROPER PAYMENTS BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.
“(b)Improved Estimates.—
“SEC. 4. IMPROPER PAYMENTS INFORMATION.
“SEC. 5. DO NOT PAY INITIATIVE.
“(a)Prepayment and Preaward Procedures.—
“(b)Do Not Pay Initiative.—
“(3)Access and review.—
“(B)Other entities.—
“(C)Consistency with .—
To ensure consistency with the principles of section 552a of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the ‘Privacy Act of 1974’), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may issue guidance that establishes privacy and other requirements that shall be incorporated into Do Not Pay Initiative access agreements with States, including any contractor, subcontractor, or agent of a State, and the judicial and legislative branches of the United States.
“(d)Initial Working System.—
shall include not less than 3 agencies as users of the system;
shall include investigation activities for fraud and systemic improper payments detection through analytic technologies and other techniques, which may include commercial database use or access; and
“(e)Facilitating Data Access by Federal Agencies and Offices of Inspectors General for Purposes of Integrity.—
“(2)Computer matching by federal agencies for purposes of investigation and prevention of improper payments and fraud.—
“(3)Guidance by the .—Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and in consultation with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Commissioner of Social Security, and the head of any other relevant agency, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall—
“(g)Plan To Curb Federal Improper Payments to Deceased Individuals by Improving the Quality and Use by Federal Agencies of the Death Master File.—
“(h)Report on Improper Payments Data Analysis.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Federal Improper Payments Coordination Act of 2015 [Dec. 18, 2015], the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress a report which shall include a description of—
“(1) data analytics performed as part of the Do Not Pay Business Center operated by the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of detecting, preventing, and recovering improper payments through preaward, postaward prepayment, and postpayment analysis, which shall include a description of any analysis or investigations incorporating—
review and data matching of payments and beneficiary enrollment lists of Stateprograms carried out using Federal funds for the purposes of identifying eligibility duplication, residency ineligibility, duplicate payments, or other potential improper payment issues;
the target dates for implementing the data analytics operations performed as part of the Do Not Pay Business Center[.]
“SEC. 6. IMPROVING RECOVERY OF IMPROPER PAYMENTS.
“SEC. 7. IMPROVING THE USE OF DATA BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR CURBING IMPROPER PAYMENTS.
“(a)Prompt Reporting of Death Information by the and the .—
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section [Dec. 18, 2015], the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall establish a procedure under which each Secretary shall, promptly and on a regular basis, submit information relating to the deaths of individuals to each agency for which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines receiving and using such information would be relevant and necessary.
“(b)Guidance to Agencies Regarding Data Access and Use for Improper Payments Purposes.—
“(1)In general.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the heads of other relevant Federal, State, and local agencies, and Indian tribes and tribal organizations, as appropriate, shall issue guidance regarding implementation of the Do Not Pay Initiative under section 5 to—
“(B) each agency or component of an agency—
“(2)Requirements.—The guidance issued under paragraph (1) shall—
include the establishment of deadlines for access to and use of the databases described in section 5(a)(2) under the Do Not Pay Initiative.”
Pub. L. 111–204, § 2(g), July 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 2228, provided that:
“Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act [July 22, 2010], the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall develop—
“(D)Contract terms and conditions.—
“(3)Disposition of amounts recovered.—
“(4)Financial management improvement .—
may seek to reduce errors and waste in other agencyprograms and operations.
“(B)Technical and conforming amendments.—
“(c)Remediation.—
“(1)Noncompliance.—
“(2)Noncompliance for 2 fiscal years.—
“(d)Compliance Enforcement Pilot .—
“(a)Identification of Susceptible and Activities.—
“(3)Risk assessments.—
“(b)Improving the Determination of Improper Payments.—
“(2)Report on high-priority improper payments.—
“(f)Governmentwide Reporting of Improper Payments and Actions To Recover Improper Payments.—
“(h)Guidance by the .—
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