How HR 8463 changes current law

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The bill establishes new pre-payment fraud prevention requirements and amends existing sections to ensure compliance with these requirements.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3528

  Ensuring that-- → Ensuring that-- (A) the agency has complied with the requirements of section 3325a and subchapter IV of this title; (B) a covered recipient is in compliance with the reporting requirements under section 6107.

  Adds new responsibilities for a certifying official to ensure compliance with new pre-payment fraud requirements.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3325

  taxpayer identifying number of each person → information required to be submitted under section 3325a(b) of each payee

  Updates the required information on payment vouchers to include data from new pre-certification requirements.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3325

  Before certifying a voucher to a disbursing official, the head of an agency or an officer or employee of an agency described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1), as applicable, shall take necessary actions to accurately disburse payments to the recipients of those payments, including by-- (A) verifying the accuracy of the bank account information to which a payment is to be disbursed, to the extent practicable; and (B) comparing the bank account information of the proposed recipient to other payment records available to the agency, to the extent practicable.

  Creates new obligations for agency heads or authorized employees to verify bank account information before certifying vouchers.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3351

  initiative → system

  Changes the terminology from 'initiative' to 'system' to better reflect the nature of the Do Not Pay program.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3352

  design and apply fraud-risk indicators to the programs identified under paragraph (A).

  Requires that fraud-risk indicators be designed and applied to programs susceptible to improper payments.

• 31 U.S.C. § 3354

  Initiative → system

  Changes the terminology from 'Initiative' to 'system' for consistency with other references.