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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2716 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To improve coordination between Federal and State agencies and the Do |
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| 6 | 6 | | Not Pay working system. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL8, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. H |
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| 10 | 10 | | IGGINSof Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Ways and Means |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To improve coordination between Federal and State agencies |
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| 14 | 14 | | and the Do Not Pay working system. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ending Improper Pay-4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | ments to Deceased People Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. IMPROVING COORDINATION BETWEEN FEDERAL 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | AND STATE AGENCIES AND THE DO NOT PAY 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | WORKING SYSTEM. 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) I |
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| 24 | 24 | | NGENERAL.—Section 801(a) of title VIII of di-9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | vision FF of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 10 |
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| 26 | 26 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:27 Apr 15, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2716.IH H2716 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 2716 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | (Public Law 116–260) is amended by striking paragraph 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (7) and inserting the following: 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(7) by adding at the end the following para-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | graph: 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘‘(11) The Commissioner of Social Security shall, to 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the extent feasible, provide information furnished to the 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Commissioner under paragraph (1) to the agency oper-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ating the Do Not Pay working system described in section 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | 3354(c) of title 31, United States Code, for the authorized 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | uses of the Do Not Pay working system through a cooper-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ative arrangement with such agency, provided that the re-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | quirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) are met with respect to such arrangement with such 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | agency.’.’’. 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (b) C |
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| 44 | 44 | | ONFORMINGAMENDMENT.—Section 801(b)(2) 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | of title VIII of division FF of the Consolidated Appropria-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tions Act, 2021 (Public Law 116–260) is amended by 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | striking ‘‘on the date that is 3 years after the date of en-18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | actment of this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘on December 28, 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | 2026’’. 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (c) E |
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| 51 | 51 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | this section shall take effect on December 28, 2026. 22 |
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