Preventing Improper Payments Act

Preventing Improper Payments Act

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.

The bill requires each agency to submit to Congress, as part of the annual financial report of the agency, a report on

• implementing financial and administrative controls and certain other practices with respect to fraud risk;
• identifying risks and vulnerabilities to fraud; and
• establishing strategies, procedures, and other steps to curb fraud.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9613 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9613

  To change the treatment of certain Federal programs with respect to 
    susceptibility to significant improper payments, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To change the treatment of certain Federal programs with respect to 
    susceptibility to significant improper payments, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Improper Payments Act''.

SEC. 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.''.

SEC. 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''.
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