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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1101
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the Bureau of the
Fiscal Service within the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY6, 2025
Ms. S
TEVENS(for herself, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. WHITESIDES, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ,
Ms. S
HERRILL, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Ms. ADAMS,
Mr. P
ALLONE, Mr. FROST, Ms. DEANof Pennsylvania, Ms. NORTON, Mr.
L
ARSONof Connecticut, Mr. SUBRAMANYAM, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr.
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UCHINCLOSS, Ms. TITUS, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. GARCIAof California, Ms.
M
CCOLLUM, Mr. AMO, Ms. WASSERMANSCHULTZ, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr.
B
ISHOP, Mr. TURNERof Texas, Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. KELLYof Illinois,
Mr. C
LEAVER, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. DELUZIO, Mr. THOMPSONof Mis-
sissippi, Mr. M
OSKOWITZ, Mr. SOTO, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr.
D
AVISof Illinois, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. CASTORof
Florida, Ms. S
CANLON, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr. PETERS, Mr.
L
IEU, Mrs. MCCLAINDELANEY, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. NORCROSS,
Mr. K
EATING, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr.
K
HANNA, Mr. LATIMER, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Ms. TLAIB, Ms.
W
ILLIAMSof Georgia, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. CARSON, Mr. STANTON, Mr.
V
ARGAS, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MANNION, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. CRAIG, Ms.
M
ATSUI, Mr. COHEN, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. PRESSLEY,
Mr. C
ASAR, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Mr.
M
CGARVEY, Mr. TONKO, Ms. ROSS, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms.
P
ELOSI, Mr. MRVAN, Ms. BROWN, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. OMAR, Mr.
P
OCAN, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. BALINT, Mr.
C
ROW, Mr. IVEY, Ms. CHU, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms.
D
ELBENE, Ms. ELFRETH, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. GOMEZ, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr.
S
HERMAN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. THOMPSONof California,
Ms. P
OU, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. FIGURES,
Mr. S
COTTof Virginia, Ms. ESCOBAR, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. MAGAZINER,
Mr. K
ENNEDYof New York, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. HIMES, Ms. MCDONALD
R
IVET, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. LICCARDO, Mr. LARSENof Washington, Mr.
T
RAN, Ms. FRIEDMAN, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. VINDMAN,
Ms. S
ALINAS, Ms. LEGERFERNANDEZ, Mrs. TORRESof California, Mr.
C
LYBURN, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. LOISFRANKELof
Florida, Mr. C
ARBAJAL, Ms. RANDALL, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. CISNEROS, Ms.
R
IVAS, Mr. AGUILAR, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois, Ms. MORRISON, Ms. CLARK
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of Massachusetts, Mr. MIN, and Mr. CASTROof Texas) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services,
and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
A BILL
To prohibit unlawful access to the payment system of the
Bureau of the Fiscal Service within the Department of
the Treasury, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Taxpayer Data Protec-4
tion Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ACCESS TO PAYMENT SYSTEM OF 6
BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE. 7
Section 321 of title 31, United States Code, is 8
amended by adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(e)(1) The Secretary may not allow any individual 10
to use, exercise administrative control over, or otherwise 11
access any Department of the Treasury public money re-12
ceipt or payment system (including any payment system 13
of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (or any successor 14
thereof)), or any data from any such system, unless— 15
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‘‘(A) such individual is an officer, employee, or 1
contractor of the Department of the Treasury— 2
‘‘(i) who is otherwise eligible to access such 3
system or data; 4
‘‘(ii) whose most recent performance rating 5
was at the fully successful level or higher (or 6
the equivalent thereof); and 7
‘‘(iii) who, as of the date of such access, 8
with respect to such an officer or employee has 9
occupied a position in the civil service (as that 10
term is defined in section 2101 of title 5), or 11
with respect to such a contractor has been per-12
forming under a contract with the Department, 13
for a period of at least one year; or 14
‘‘(B) in the case of an individual not described 15
in subparagraph (A)— 16
‘‘(i) such individual holds a security clear-17
ance at the appropriate level with respect to 18
such system or data and such clearance was 19
granted pursuant to the procedures established 20
under section 801 of the National Security Act 21
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3161)); 22
‘‘(ii) such individual’s access to such sys-23
tem or data, or use thereof, does not constitute 24
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a violation of section 208 of title 18 (deter-1
mined after the application of paragraph (2)); 2
‘‘(iii) such individual is not a special Gov-3
ernment employee (as defined in section 202 of 4
title 18); 5
‘‘(iv) such individual’s current continuous 6
service in the civil service (as that term is de-7
fined in section 2101 of title 5) as of the date 8
of such access is for a period of at least 1 year; 9
‘‘(v) such individual has completed any re-10
quired training or compliance procedures with 11
respect to privacy laws and cybersecurity and 12
national security regulations and best practices; 13
and 14
‘‘(vi) has signed a written ethics agreement 15
with either the Department of the Treasury or 16
the Office of Government Ethics. 17
‘‘(2)(A) Any individual who accesses any system 18
or data described in paragraph (1) who is not other-19
wise an officer or employee of the executive branch 20
of the United States Government shall be treated as 21
an employee of the executive branch of the United 22
States Government for purposes of section 208 of 23
title 18. 24
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‘‘(B) For purposes of such section 208, exercise 1
of administrative control or stopping, canceling, ad-2
justing, holding, rejecting, changing, or otherwise 3
impacting any payment or data in any Department 4
of the Treasury public money receipt or payment 5
system (including any payment system of the Bu-6
reau of the Fiscal Service (or any successor there-7
of)), shall be considered personal and substantial 8
participation as a Government officer or employee in 9
a particular matter. 10
‘‘(3) The Inspector General of the Department 11
of the Treasury shall investigate, and submit a re-12
port to Congress on such investigation, each in-13
stance of unauthorized use or other access of any 14
payment system described in paragraph (1). Any 15
such report shall be submitted not later than 30 16
days after any such instance and shall include— 17
‘‘(A) a detailed description of the unau-18
thorized use or access, including any actions the 19
individual carried out; 20
‘‘(B) a risk assessment of any threat to 21
privacy, national security, cybersecurity, or the 22
integrity of the applicable system as a result of 23
such unauthorized use or access; and 24
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‘‘(C) a detailed description of any stopped 1
payments during the unauthorized use or ac-2
cess.’’. 3
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