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H.R. 8463119th CongressGovernment Operations and Politics
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
Sponsored by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) · 3 active : 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJun 8, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govPre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
This bill expands efforts to identify, prevent, and recover improper payments of federal funds (e.g., overpayments, underpayments, payments to ineligible recipients).
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Specifically, the Department of the Treasury must establish certain requirements that agencies must meet before directing Treasury to make a payment of federal funds. These pre-payment requirements must include verification of payee information, payment details, and fund availability. Further, agencies must, to the extent practicable, verify the accuracy of payee bank account information before directing Treasury to make a payment.
The bill also expands the Do Not Pay system, which provides agencies with access to centralized data for the purpose of verifying payee eligibility, and provides statutory authority for Treasury’s role as administrator of the system. The bill requires specified data assets to be added to the system and authorizes Treasury to (1) designate additional data assets for inclusion, and (2) access certain taxpayer and Social Security information for the system. The bill specifies that information obtained through the system may only be used to prevent and recover improper payments and establishes penalties for the unlawful disclosure of such information.
The bill explicitly requires executive agencies and state and local governments administering federally funded programs to screen payees against all appropriate Do Not Pay data assets and risk tools before making an award or directing a payment.
Finally, the bill establishes post-award reporting requirements for certain first-time fund recipients under federal programs for awards of $50,000 or more.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- House Committee on Ways and Means · HouseDischarged from · Referred to
Subjects
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Congressional oversight
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Department of the Treasury
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Intergovernmental relations
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Right of privacy
- Social security and elderly assistance
- State and local government operations
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA-41)
- Robert Garcia (D-CA-42)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
